Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea's Film and Transportation

by Han Sang Kim

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674267974
• ISBN13: 9780674267978
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 270 Pages