<div dir="ltr">Dear List Members,<div><br></div><div>My paper on representations of US air power and the massacre of Korean civilians is in the new issue of the Journal of American Studies. I thought it might be of interest to some folks here. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/unending-korean-war-in-film-from-the-bridges-at-tokori-to-welcome-to-dongmakgol/AEE5600509C1BCF12A244B43BB575D4B">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/unending-korean-war-in-film-from-the-bridges-at-tokori-to-welcome-to-dongmakgol/AEE5600509C1BCF12A244B43BB575D4B</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="gmail-article-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:5px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:32px;font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);clear:both"><font size="2">The Unending Korean War in Film: From <span class="gmail-italic" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The Bridges at Toko-Ri</span> to<span class="gmail-italic" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Welcome to Dongmakgol</span></font></h1></div><div><span style="color:rgb(89,89,89);font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20.8px">Abstract: Korean War films from the US and South Korea provide one cultural site through which scholar–teachers working in American studies, and the humanities in general, can intervene in the unending Korean War. An emergent peace movement has organized around term </span><span class="gmail-italic" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:20.8px;font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(89,89,89)">unending Korean War</span><span style="color:rgb(89,89,89);font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20.8px"> in order to educate the public both about the history of the three-year period of active combat, and about the repercussions of the fact that the Armistice Agreement, signed on 27 July 1953, stopped the shooting but did not end the war. In the US context, the Korean War is described as a forgotten war. When the war is remembered, it has often been interpreted as a limited, defensive, or static war – a war fought in the trenches – a perspective that tends to occlude the air war. Through a comparative study of the Hollywood film </span><span class="gmail-italic" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:20.8px;font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(89,89,89)">The Bridges at Toko-Ri</span><span style="color:rgb(89,89,89);font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20.8px"> (Mark Robson, 1954) and the South Korean film </span><span class="gmail-italic" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:20.8px;font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(89,89,89)">Welcome to Dongmakgol</span><span style="color:rgb(89,89,89);font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20.8px"> (Park Kwang-hyun, 2005), I explore conflicting ways of representing and remembering the air war: as limited to an interdiction campaign in the former, as the cause of civilian casualties in the latter. The friction that results from viewing </span><span class="gmail-italic" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:20.8px;font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(89,89,89)">Welcome to Dongmakgol</span><span style="color:rgb(89,89,89);font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20.8px"> against the grain of </span><span class="gmail-italic" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:20.8px;font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(89,89,89)">The Bridges at Toko-Ri</span><span style="color:rgb(89,89,89);font-family:'Noto Sans',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20.8px"> provides one starting point for a discussion of the unending Korean War, a discussion which has yet to appear in the field of transnational American studies. My hope is that greater understanding of the devastating air war can contribute to the struggle for peace on the Korean peninsula.</span><font size="2"><span class="gmail-italic" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></div></div>