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Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s

Gyeong-hae Wee 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This work examines the historicity of cultural film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s designed by Korean government in order to construct the cultural identity for both Korean people and international propaganda. To problematize the representation of each region in South Korea in the film during the period is to explore the contention and struggle regarding the discourse on culture between nation power and ordinary people, and interweave them into history. By the 1950s after the Korean War the visual images of regions and its theme in cultural film displayed in the rhetorics of inclusion and exclusion of anti-communism based on Cold War Orientalism. Also, cultural film produced until the mid 1960s intended to mold the discourse on the 'one's native place' in order to support the discourse on modernization and industrialization in South Korea. Under the circumstance, most of the local elites were mobilized to the logics of the construction of ‘Korean-ness’ and modernization, which were designed by cultural film. Ordinary people in the local areas, as distinct from the local elites, responded the propaganda film and appropriated the place of film exhibition from the place of the ‘enlightenment’ to the place of ‘the vernacular’. The appropriation of the film exhibition place, however, resulted in the desire of the building of movie theaters in their regions, which was the paradox of film reception in their owns.

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