Forever girls : necro-cinematics and South Korean girlhood /
"Forever Girls explores the girlhood and the image of death manifest in contemporary South Korean cinema. In both classical and contemporary South Korean cinema, girls' bodies have repeatedly embodied various conflicting socio-political forces that shaped the nation: coloniality, postcolon...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Forever Girls explores the girlhood and the image of death manifest in contemporary South Korean cinema. In both classical and contemporary South Korean cinema, girls' bodies have repeatedly embodied various conflicting socio-political forces that shaped the nation: coloniality, postcolonial and postwar traumas, modernity, and democracy. Jinhee Choi reorients the direction of current scholarship on contemporary Korean cinema from patriarchy, masculinity and violence, to consider girls as a social imaginary. Drawing on the depiction of girlhood from the 1970s as reference image, including that of low-wage working-class girls, she explores the extent to which the girlhood represented in the millennial South Korean cinema still resonates with such an image"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197685822 019768582X 9780197685815 0197685811 9780197685808 0197685803 |