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Memories of Memories: Historicity, Nostalgia, and Archive in Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 51, Number 1, Fall 2011
- pp. 75-95
- 10.1353/cj.2011.0065
- Article
- Additional Information
This paper reads Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder (2003) as a commentary on the possibilities of historicity at the proverbial end of history. It argues that the film ultimately instantiates a kind of spectral historiography that comments on the archive's possibility as well as its limits.