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essay #1 > > * Must be 2-3 double-spaced, typed pages in total. > * Proofread your essay before turning it in. You will be graded on > both content and style. > * Bring a hard copy to class! Electronic file versions will not be > accepted. > > As Chung and Diffrient point out, many Korean film scholars have > argued that “Korean melodrama hinges upon the national sentiment of > /han/, a slippery and subtle term that…denotes everything from > “resentment” and “lamentation” to “unfulfilled desire” and > “resignation.” (C/D, P. 22)Both /Epitaph /and /The Stray Bullet/ > mobilize this Korean /han /arguably to express not melodrama, but > respectively horror and realism.Does this mean that /han /becomes a > less significant concept when it is exploited as a sensibility to > express non-melodramatic emotion such as shock in horror films or > social anger in realist films?Do you agree with this general > assessment that /han /is less relevant in these two films because it > is an anachronistic and nationalist feeling or do you feel that it is > just as relevant in these two films?Use AT LEAST two specific > references from these two films studied so far in the course to build > your case. > > > > > On 10/5/15 11:35 AM, Kyung Kim wrote: >> The revised prompt--only a couple of clerical typo corrected.... >>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4s051s542cu0did/AABY75EM9cCsJJDKdRHYvI5Wa?dl=0