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The Archive of Memory Weathering - With Focus on those who were Forgotten in Prokino Archiving -

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2021, (83), pp.281-313
  • DOI : 10.31310/HUM.083.09
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 5, 2021
  • Accepted : October 26, 2021
  • Published : November 30, 2021

Jeong Choongsil 1

1한국연구재단 인문사회학술연구교수

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ABSTRACT

This article focuses on Prokino archiving in the 1980s, including the collection and screening of Prokino films, the collection and restoration of Prokino journals, and the publication of The History of Prokino. This article regards Prokino archiving work as a practice of producing knowledge in a power relationship. The Prokino activities have an important value and meaning in the history of Japanese films in that they produced films for workers and held screening tours nationwide without relying on capital under the surveillance and oppression of the imperial Japanese authorities from 1929 to 1934. However, since the archive is a place infested with “archive fever,” only the traces of Prokino members were noted through the added subtitles, commentaries, and the publication of The History of Prokino in Prokino archiving. In Prokino archiving, the existence of the women and the Koreans (Zainichi) is hidden although they, in solidarity among audiences, actively interpreted Prokino films ‒ whose intentions had not been properly realized due to various unfavorable conditions ‒ as the films of resistance.

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