@article{ART003275275},
author={Na Boryeong},
title={The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2025},
volume={82},
number={4},
pages={341-367},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.82.4.202511.341}
TY - JOUR
AU - Na Boryeong
TI - The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2025
VL - 82
IS - 4
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 341
EP - 367
SN - 1598-3021
AB - Aimless Bullet, widely recognized for its realist portrayal of the uprooted lives of postwar refugees from the North and the struggles of urban poverty, can be reinterpreted as a text that offers a new approach to the question of how to represent the bodies of refugees in the Cold War era.
The film consistently attends to refugee bodies that have been rendered invisible within the postwar social reality and afflicted by the trauma of war. At the same time, it represents these bodies as active agents that resist the cinematic mechanisms that turn war trauma into spectacle and invite narcissistic identification from viewers. Alongside this project of repositioning refugee bodies within the filmic regime of representation, this article examines, from the perspective of Cold War cosmopolitanism, the decolonial effects of Aimless Bullet. Specifically, it explores how the film adopts stylistic elements from contemporary Hollywood and European cinema while exposing and critiquing the system that continuously reproduces refugees under the ideology of Cold War modernity and nation-state reconstruction, as mediated through the urban spaces of postwar Seoul and its refugee crisis.
KW - Cold War;Korean War;Yu Hyun-mok;Aimless Bullet;Refugees;;Cold War Cosmopolitanism;Haebangchon;Refugees from the North
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.82.4.202511.341
ER -
Na Boryeong. (2025). The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 82(4), 341-367.
Na Boryeong. 2025, "The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.82, no.4 pp.341-367. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.82.4.202511.341
Na Boryeong "The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 82.4 pp.341-367 (2025) : 341.
Na Boryeong. The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet. 2025; 82(4), 341-367. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.82.4.202511.341
Na Boryeong. "The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 82, no.4 (2025) : 341-367.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.4.202511.341
Na Boryeong. The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 82(4), 341-367. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.4.202511.341
Na Boryeong. The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2025; 82(4) 341-367. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.4.202511.341
Na Boryeong. The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet. 2025; 82(4), 341-367. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.82.4.202511.341
Na Boryeong. "The Bodies of Cold War Refugees as Seen Through Aimless Bullet" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 82, no.4 (2025) : 341-367.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.4.202511.341
