Eclipsed Cinema

Dong Hoon Kim is Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Literatures and a member of the committee on Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCING 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 2JOSEON 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 3MIGRATING 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 4COLONIAL 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 5FILM SPECTATORSHIP AND THE TENSIONS OF MODERNITYModern 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

Innovative! Dong Hoon Kim goes beyond the national cinema approach by using both Japanese and Korean texts and examining the multicultural/multiethnic formation of the Korean film culture during the colonial period. Eclipsed Cinema is a must read for all who are interested in the history of East Asian cinemas.