The Remnants of Anti-communist Film and Kijichon Women: Focusing on Anna’s Will(1975) and Festival of Migrants(1978)

Jaerin, L. (2026). The Remnants of Anti-communist Film and Kijichon Women: Focusing on Anna’s Will(1975) and Festival of Migrants(1978), 0(68), 249-291, https://doi.org/10.15686/fkl.2026..68.249

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Abstract

This study reads two films from the 1970s, Anna’s Will(Anna-ui yuseo) and Festival of Migrants(Cheolsaedeul-ui chugje), through a cross-analysis of their screenplays and censorship documents, as texts that allow a glimpse into the realities of kijichon(military camptown) life—realities visible precisely in the gaps within their official designation as anticommunist films. Produced amid Yushin-era institutional rigidity, the popular culture boom alongside the hostess genre, and the U.S. military base issue’s rising prominence after the Nixon Doctrine, these films operate on a schema positioning North Korea as enemy, the U.S. military as ally, and kijichon women as sites of suffering, while simultaneously exposing structural violence and Korea-U.S. tensions. In the representational void this creates, traces of silenced lives emerge behind women cast as “legitimate victims.” This study thus seeks an approach to kijichon films that moves beyond essentializing these women into fixed symbols.

keywords: 기지촌, 호스티스 영화, 반공영화, 미군, 검열, 「안나의 유서」, 「철새들의 축제」, 기지촌 여성, 기지촌 정화운동, 재현, U.S. military camptown, hostess film, anticommunist film, United States Forces in Korea(USFK), censorship, Anna’s Will, Festival of Migrants, ‘comfort women’ for the U.S. military, camptown purification movement, representation

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No.68

The Remnants of Anti-communist Film and Kijichon Women: Focusing on Anna’s Will(1975) and Festival of Migrants(1978)

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Feminism and Korean Literature