Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941)

이주희

doi:10.22901/trans.2015.8.2.201

@article{ART002003631},
author={이주희},
title={Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941)},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2015},
volume={8},
number={2},
pages={201-233},
doi={10.22901/trans.2015.8.2.201}

TY - JOUR
AU - 이주희
TI - Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941)
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2015
VL - 8
IS - 2
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 201
EP - 233
SN - 2092-6081
AB - In 1933, the state’s concern with Japanese reformatories of juvenile delinquents changed with the enactment of “The Juvenile Education and Protection Law” (少年教護法). According to this legislation, reformatories were expected to function not only as asylums to punish and cure delinquency, but also as welfare facilities to support delinquents’ growth into self-reliant, responsible citizens. When we think of how these two aspects of reformatory were represented as cultural products, Shimizu Hiroshi’s film Introspection Tower (1941) gives us an interesting example. However, it is curious that the film’s depiction of delinquents is equivocal, probably because he intended to show them simply as socially disadvantaged children rather than as little fringers who needed to be isolated from the society. By doing so, Shimizu could reproduce the reformatory as an ideal institution of welfare run by the government. Moreover, in this film, the welfare state, represented by the reformatory of juvenile delinquents, employs the voluntary collaboration of members in the struggle for their lives in the reformatory, in order to approve war mobilization. By examining the last episode in which waterways are constructed by the children’s own hands, I argue that it could be interpreted as a metaphor for the war mobilization. In this episode, children’s labor is portrayed as a natural outcome of childhood innocence in enjoyment of physical activities. This representation of working children was to appear as well as Shimizu’s films in postwar period.
KW - juvenile delinquent;reformatory;welfare;labor;mobilization war
DO - 10.22901/trans.2015.8.2.201
ER -

이주희. (2015). Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941). 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 8(2), 201-233.

이주희. 2015, "Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941)", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.8, no.2 pp.201-233. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2015.8.2.201

이주희 "Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941)" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 8.2 pp.201-233 (2015) : 201.

이주희. Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941). 2015; 8(2), 201-233. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2015.8.2.201

이주희. "Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941)" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 8, no.2 (2015) : 201-233.doi: 10.22901/trans.2015.8.2.201

이주희. Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941). 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 8(2), 201-233. doi: 10.22901/trans.2015.8.2.201

이주희. Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941). 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2015; 8(2) 201-233. doi: 10.22901/trans.2015.8.2.201

이주희. Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941). 2015; 8(2), 201-233. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2015.8.2.201

이주희. "Representation of the Reformatory of Juvenile Delinquents in Shimizu Hiroshi’s Film Introspection Tower (1941)" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 8, no.2 (2015) : 201-233.doi: 10.22901/trans.2015.8.2.201

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