About Steve Choe

Steve Choe is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University who researches and teaches in film and media theory. He is the author of Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany (2014), Sovereign Violence: Ethics and South Korean Cinema in the New Millennium (2016) and ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin (2023). He is the co-editor of Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia (2019) and editor of the Handbook for Violence in Film and Media (2022).

NBN Episodes hosted by Steve:

Seung-hoon Jeong, "Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2023)

February 7, 2025

Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema

Seung-hoon Jeong
Hosted by Steve Choe

If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, Seung-hoon Jeong’s global frame highlights two confl…