ECLIPSED CINEMA: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea. Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film

摘要

Dong Hoon Kim's Eclipsed Cinema provides an exhaustive study of the film culture of colonial Korea. By film culture he means the entire practice of cinema: film production, distribution, censorship, exhibition, and spectatorship. Writing against the grain of nationalist film historiography, Kim seeks to capture the entirety of the cinema experience and not focus exclusively on Korean-produced films, which constituted perhaps only 5 percent of the films exhibited in the crucial middle period of colonial rule. This total approach leads him to posit a more complex picture of Korean identity formation and a transactional cultural politics within this most important area of popular culture.