Peonies of Pyongyang: Women in North Korean Cinema

Across the years, and over the regimes of three Great Leaders, North Korea has experienced change both drastic and drawn-out. Throughout this period, women have remained central to the sustenance of the country's ideology and society – a position that is refracted in their representations in cinema, writes Julia Mayer.

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Asian cinema, Kim Jong Il, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Un, mythology, indoctrination, Juche, propaganda, family, patriarchy, muse, Pyongyang, revolution, Aim High in Creation! , A Schoolgirl's Diary, Comrade Kim Goes Flying, The Flower Girl.