In this study, we examine how the cinema was received by the elite and people and analyse the interrelationship of the cinema and other cultural product(literature, theater, advertisement, etc.) in colonial Chosun. In our research the main purpose is ...
In this study, we examine how the cinema was received by the elite and people and analyse the interrelationship of the cinema and other cultural product(literature, theater, advertisement, etc.) in colonial Chosun. In our research the main purpose is the anlaysis of the formation of the scopic regime in the modernity. For this project, we approach the subject through the two methodological attempts, which firstly is the interdiscipline approach and secondly is the contextual approach. Then we collect the datum which is consisted of the article, essay, paper, advertisement, the official document etc., from newspaper and magazine colonial Chosun, 1920-1940. We have total 5042 materials : Dongailbo(1634), Mailshibo(825), Jungyoeilbo/Sidaeilbo(234), Junangilbo/Chosunjungangilbo(212), Chosunilbo(1653), Samchunri(170), Chongdokbugwanbo(23), Youngwhachosun(75), Sahaegongron/Chogwang/Gajokoiwo/Chosunmunhak/Bakmun/Gwangupchosun(106), Jeilsun/Sindonga/Jungang/Yeosung(45), hinmin/Yesulundong/Byelgungon/Chosungigwang/Chosunmunye/Daejunggongron/Chosun/Sinyeosung/Sidaegongron/Hyesung/Sinheungyoungwha/Sindangye/Chosunmundan/Dongyanggigwang(335). In the basis of the collected datum, we extract six categories for the study of our project. 1. The cultural history of movie theater, which empiricaly research the experience of the cinema spectator in colonial Chosun. 2. The spectatorship that is the study of the spectator's historical change through Na-Unkyu's film from mid 1920s to late 1930s. 3. The interelationship of film and poem, which analyse the interrelationship of poetic conversion and movie experience at Korean modern poetry. 4. Film and cultural studies, which analyse the historical formation of silent cinema's Byonsa as the star of vernacula modernism. 5. Cinema and advertisement that is the microhistoric analysis of marketing message in cinema advertisements and press report during 1920-1930 years. 6. Cinema and History, which examine the postcoloniality of <Ariarang>(1926, Na Nukyu) focusing provincializing Europe, Melodarma, and the reception. Consequently, our study suggests that the reception of cinema brings it into the dynamic and unequal formation of scopic modernity in colonial Chosun, that as the orgin of Korean culure the scopic modernity experience the historical transformation by 1920-30, that for approaching the dynamic and unequal formation of scopic modernity we need interdiscipline and alternative historiography, and that through alternative historiography the present temporality of the origin scopic modernity can make a sense and newly illuminate alternative future.