Depictions of Korean Masculinity through The Marines Who Never Returned

Lena Pham

Authors

Lena Pham Hendrix College Author

Keywords:

Korea, Korean War, Korean film

Abstract

This paper will analyze The Marines Who Never Returned (1963), a war film from the Golden Age of Korean Cinema in the 1960s to show how men demonstrated their masculinity and how depictions of masculinity were constructed in the wake of the Korean War. Specifically, this will be achieved by analyzing the story arc of one of the soldiers named Kim Hae-bong and by analyzing the brothel as a site of masculinity.

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