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Presentation Korean Cinema Dussoulier Mathieu
Presentation Korean Cinema Dussoulier Mathieu
Cinema
The key turning point of colonial cinema is the March First Independence Movement in 1919
Mathieu Dussoulier
What is the Colonial Korean Cinema ?
Korean filmmakers and Japanese film industry became one same body
Tuition (1940)
Yeong-dal (protagonist)
→ a school boy who loves attending school and is a good student
→ Unstable financial situation, leaving with his grandmother
→ his grandmother becomes seriously ill and cannot work anymore
→ He found support from a schoolmate but even her support is not enough.
→ The boy decides to travel to another area in order to ask his aunt for help
Education
It was necessary during the 1940s for Japanese colonialism in Korea “to eventually extend its
control into the private sphere of communities, families and individuals.”
Use more direct or non-direct way to promote the regime through the cinema in Korea
Depend on : -the date, the productor and the subject
House owner
Inculcate a new way of thinking into Korea's children's minds can resume the film as itself
Tuition, the reflect of the
korean film industry at that
time
The colonial cinema in general, not only the Korean cinema, adapt his tactic depending on the people it had to influence
→It takes the perfect form that it must adopt to best reach its targets.
Indian first silent film under British occupation in 1913 (Raja Harishchandra)
-1918 law on the censorship of Indian cinema.
→ Creates the Boom in the indian cinema scene (any major films were released at that time).
-Strong censorship in 1940
The soft and less propagandistic way worked best for England in India and allowed them to have influence over a long period of time, to make
the British ideology accepted in director’s minds.
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