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Abstract
The war is widely considered to have concluded with the signing of the Armistice Agreement, and actions such as the establishment of the Demilitarized Zone and the exchange of prisoners of war and deceased soldiers occurred following the cease-fire without an official peace treaty In order to keep the men occupied after the cease-fire had been arranged, K-47 base organized the men into sports teams that would compete with other bases in tournaments. By investigating Monroe's role as a USO performer in 1954 Korea through the use of Roach's theory of celebrity and cognitive theories on audience engagement, I examine the relationship between spectator and performance within a wartime context in a new light. [...]I argue that the USO created "scripted" performances in order to encourage feelings of nationalism within the troops in Korea during the winter of 1954.