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14 December, 2024

Jinhee Choi, Forever Girls: Necro-Cinematics and South Korean Girlhood

Jinhee Choi, Forever Girls: Necro-Cinematics and South Korean Girlhood
14 December, 2024

Jinhee Choi, Forever Girls: Necro-Cinematics and South Korean Girlhood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).

Forever Girls explores girlhood manifest in contemporary South Korean cinema within the conflicting socio-political forces that shaped the nation: coloniality, postcolonial and postwar traumas, modernity, and democracy. Author Jinhee Choi reorients the direction of current scholarship on contemporary South Korean cinema from patriarchy, masculinity and violence, to instead consider girls as a social imaginary. (See more)

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