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This paper considers the theme of sacrificial heroism in the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s film Snowpiercer (2013). In order to become the hero, the film’s main character, Curtis, must risk ...
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Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema is a fully refereed forum for the dissemination of scholarly work devoted to the cinemas of Japan and Korea and the interactions and relations between them. The increasingly transnational status of Japanese and Korean cinema underlines the need to deepen our understanding of this ever more globalized film-making region. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema is a peer-reviewed journal. The peer review process is double blind. Detailed Instructions for Authors can be found here.