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@article{ART001504749},
author={Gyeong-hae Wee},
title={Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s},
journal={Journal of Popular Narrative},
issn={1738-3188},
year={2010},
number={24},
pages={337-364},
doi={10.18856/jpn.2010..24.012}

TY - JOUR
AU - Gyeong-hae Wee
TI - Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s
JO - Journal of Popular Narrative
PY - 2010
VL - null
IS - 24
PB - The Association of Popular Narrative
SP - 337
EP - 364
SN - 1738-3188
AB - 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.
KW - cultural film;film-nation/state;mass mobilization;elites;discourse on the ‘one's native place’;Cold War Orientalism;movie theaters;appropriation
DO - 10.18856/jpn.2010..24.012
ER -

Gyeong-hae Wee. (2010). Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s. Journal of Popular Narrative, 24, 337-364.

Gyeong-hae Wee. 2010, "Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s", Journal of Popular Narrative, no.24, pp.337-364. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2010..24.012

Gyeong-hae Wee "Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s" Journal of Popular Narrative 24 pp.337-364 (2010) : 337.

Gyeong-hae Wee. Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s. 2010; 24 : 337-364. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2010..24.012

Gyeong-hae Wee. "Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s" Journal of Popular Narrative no.24(2010) : 337-364.doi: 10.18856/jpn.2010..24.012

Gyeong-hae Wee. Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s. Journal of Popular Narrative, 24, 337-364. doi: 10.18856/jpn.2010..24.012

Gyeong-hae Wee. Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s. Journal of Popular Narrative. 2010; 24 337-364. doi: 10.18856/jpn.2010..24.012

Gyeong-hae Wee. Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s. 2010; 24 : 337-364. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2010..24.012

Gyeong-hae Wee. "Representation and Localization of Regions in Cultural Film from the post-Korean War to the 1960s" Journal of Popular Narrative no.24(2010) : 337-364.doi: 10.18856/jpn.2010..24.012