I am honoured to have won this year’s BAFTSS Best Monograph Award. I am grateful to be part of the Association that continues to champion thoughtful, innovative research, and I share this recognition with colleagues who have supported this work.
Professor Jinhee Choi, Professor of Film Studies
01 May 2026
'Vitally important': Professor Jinhee Choi wins the 2026 BAFTSS Best Monograph Award
Forever Girls by Professor Jinhee Choi was recognised as a ‘vitally important and lastingly relevant’ piece of scholarship.
Professor Jinhee Choi won the Best Monograph Award in the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Awards 2026 for Forever Girls: Necro-Cinematics and South Korean Girlhood (Oxford University Press, 2025).
The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies is a UK‑based academic and professional association, founded in 2011 to promote research, teaching, and scholarship in film, television, and screen studies. The association is international in its membership.
BAFTSS has presented its Publication Awards annually since 2013.
Choi explores girlhood in South Korean cinema with supreme skill in argumentation and great clarity of writing. Not only does it challenge male-centred scholarship on East Asian cinema, its critiques of the use of girlhood and of girls and young women offers lessons for all readers. It is hugely readable, vitally important, wonderfully constructed and lastingly relevant.
BAFTSS Panel
Forever Girls is the first English-language monograph to focus on girlhood and South Korean cinema.
It is a deep dive into how the concept of girlhood manifests itself in contemporary South Korean cinema against the background of colonialism, post-colonial and post-war traumas, and modern democracy.
Find out more about the monograph here.
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