Book ID: CBB509671328

Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea’s Film and Transportation (2022)

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Kim, Han Sang (Author)


Harvard University Asia Center


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 280
Language: English

In 1916, a group of Korean farmers and their children gathered to watch a film depicting the enthronement of the Japanese emperor. For this screening, a unit of the colonial government’s news agency brought a projector and generator by train to their remote rural town. Before the formation of commercial moviegoing culture for colonial audiences in rural Korean towns, many films were sent to such towns and villages as propaganda. The colonial authorities, as well as later South Korean postcolonial state authorities, saw film as the most effective medium for disseminating their political messages. In Cine-Mobility, Han Sang Kim argues that the force of propaganda films in Korea was derived primarily not from their messages but from the new mobility of the viewing position. From the first film shot in Korea in 1901 through early internet screen cultures in late 1990s South Korea, Cine-Mobility explores the association between cinematic media and transportation mobility, not only in diverse and discrete forms such as railroads, motorways, automobiles, automation, and digital technologies, but also in connection with the newly established rules and restrictions and the new culture of mobility, including changes in gender dynamics, that accompanied it.

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Authors & Contributors
Butsch, Richard
Allyson Nadia Field
Law, Michael John
Asseraf, Arthur
Halter, Nicholas
Emanuel, Martin
Concepts
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Mass media
Technology and society
Transportation
Mobility studies
Radio
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century
Places
Germany
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
United States
Australia
Shanghai (China)
Islands of the Pacific
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