Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial KoreaIn 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. By reconstructing the lost intricacies of colonial film history, Eclipsed Cinema explores under-investigated aspects of colonial film culture, such as the representational politics of colonial cinema, the film unit of the colonial government, the social reception of Hollywood cinema, and Japanese settlers' film culture. Filling a significant void in Asian film history, Eclipsed Cinema greatly expands the critical and historical scopes of early cinema and Korean and Japanese film histories, as well as modern Asian culture, and colonial and postcolonial studies. |
Contents
on Some Critical Questions of Joseon Cinema | |
Japanese Settler Film Culture | |
Nationalist Enough? | |
Film Spectatorship and the Tensions of Modernity | |
Integrating into the Imperial Cinema | |
Notes | |
Appendix | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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