Brian Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim

Korea's Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948

The Untold History of the Film Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

This project compares and contrasts the development of cinema in Korea during the Japanese occupation (1910a "1945) and US Army Military (1945a "1948) periods within the larger context of cinemas in occupied territories. It promises to yield new knowledge and insight by examining the then nascent film industry in Korea in the light of Hollywooda (TM)s global expansion campaign, which began in 1929, and the ascension of Japana (TM)s wartime activities. By avoiding a comprehensive application of Western theory on the Korean situation, the project investigates key moments in Koreaa (TM)s cinematic history and touches directly upon the themes of nation building, national identity, colonial modernity, propaganda and cultural protectionism as well as the sensitive subject of collaboration. This study demonstrates the formation of a cinema under occupation is more complex than our conventional understandings of national cinema tell us.

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This book investigates the dynamic linkages between foreign film culture, imported films, national cultural policy and audience reception, and the significant impact that all these elements had on the transformation of cinema in Korea between 1893 and 1948.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780415995382
• ISBN-10: 0415995388
• Artikelnr.: 29924935

Autorenporträt

Brian Yecies is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. His research focuses on film policy, the history of cinema, and the digital wave in Korea. He is a pastrecipient of prestigious research grants from the Asia Research Fund, Korea Foundation and Australia-Korea Foundation. Ae-Gyung Shim received her PhD from the University of New South Wales with the support of a Korea Foundation Fellowship for Graduate Studies. She has taught part-time in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Wollongong, and is a 2011 Korea Foundation Post-Doctorial Fellow at the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Invasion from the West, 1893
1905 2. Foreign Cinematic Spaces and the Birth of the Film Industry, 1905
1916 3. Profiting and Profiteering from the Systematization of Film Censorship, 1916
1936 4. The Coming of the Talkies to the Cinema in Colonial Korea 5. Collaborative Film Production Under Japan's War
Preparation System, 1937
1945 6. Disarming Japan's Cannons with Hollywood's Cameras: Cinema in Korea under U.S. Occupation, 1945
1948 Conclusion