Aaron Magnan-Park

Assistant Professor
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre

Degrees

B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa

Research Profile

Magnan-Park specializes in pan-Asian cinema with a theoretical engagement with cinematic sound, ethnicity, the diaspora, the transnational, and postcolonialism. He has published on Hong Kong and South Korean cinema in the following anthologies: The Politics of Community, New Korean Cinema (forthcoming), and Chinese Connections (forthcoming). His has two manuscript projects. One centers on the internationalization of Hong Kong's gongfupian [martial arts films] and the other on the discourse of han [everlasting woe] in Korean cinema.