Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman (France/South Korea, 2016)

By Dr Markus Bell, Lecturer in Korean and Japanese Studies, SEAS Source: Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman (France/South Korea, 2016) North Korean forced migration has become a hot topic in the Western media. Largely driven by the publication of memoirs by several high-profile North Korean ‘defectors’, the plight of the North Korean citizenry and the…

Korea, Girlhood and Cinema: some reflections.

By Dr Kate Taylor-Jones, Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies, SEAS Earlier this year, Dr Fiona Handside and myself published a collection of essays entitled International Cinema and the Girl (London: Palgrave Mcmillan). Inside this collected edition we bought together a group of scholars to explore how the girl has been visualized in global cinema. Our…

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Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman (France/South Korea, 2016)

Korea, Girlhood and Cinema: some reflections.