Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea

ISBN-13: 9781474437547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Dong Hoon Kim

Opis

In this ground-breaking investigation into the seldom-studied film culture of colonial Korea (1910-1945), Dong Hoon Kim brings new perspectives to the associations between colonialism, modernity, film historiography and national cinema.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCING JOSEON CINEMA: THE QUESTION OF FILM HISTORY AND THE FILM CULTURE OF COLONIAL KOREA

CHAPTER 1
THE BEGINNING: TOWARD A MASS ENTERTAINMENT
Film Culture Begins: The Development of Early Film Culture
Film Production Begins: Moving Picture Unit of the Office of the Governor-General

CHAPTER 2
JOSEON CINEMA, CINEMATIC JOSEON: ON SOME CRITICAL QUESTIONS OF JOSEON CINEMA
Desperately Seeking the Joseon Image: Arirang (1926) and the Making of Joseon Film Aesthetics
Joseon Film Lyricism: Joseon Colour and Joseon Films ‘Exported’ to Japan

CHAPTER 3
MIGRATING WITH THE MOVIES: JAPANESE SETTLER FILM CULTURE
The Formation and Characteristics of Settler Film Culture
‘A Film Practice Distinctly Joseon’: The Ethnic Segregation of Movie Theatres

CHAPTER 4
COLONIAL FILM SPECTATORSHIP: NATIONALIST ENOUGH?
Korean Spectators or How They Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hollywood
Performing Colonial Identity: The Transcolonial Practice of Byeonsa/Benshi

CHAPTER 5
FILM SPECTATORSHIP AND THE TENSIONS OF MODERNITY
Modern Girls and Boys Go to the Movies: Cinema, Modernity, and the Colonised Nation
Mobility, Movie Theatres, and Female Film Spectatorship

CONCLUSION
INTEGRATING INTO THE IMPERIAL CINEMA
Appendix
Bibliography