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The Korean “Cinema Of Assimilation” And The Construction Of Cultural Hegemony In The Final Years Of Japanese Rule, Brian Yecies, Richard Howson Jul 2018

The Korean “Cinema Of Assimilation” And The Construction Of Cultural Hegemony In The Final Years Of Japanese Rule, Brian Yecies, Richard Howson

Dr Brian Yecies

During the late 1930s, as Japan escalated war preparations with China, and after Governor-General Minami formalized the assimilationist ideology of “Japan and Korea as One Body”, cinema in Korea experienced a fundamental transformation. Korean filmmakers had little choice but to make co-productions that aimed to draw Koreans toward Japanese ways of thinking and living, while promoting a sense of loyalty to the Japanese Empire. Within this colonial context, and especially after the 1940 Korean Film Law facilitated the absorption of the Korean film industry into the Japanese film industry, a particular type of masculine hegemony was encouraged by a comprehensive …


Korean-Chinese Film Remakes In A New Age Of Cultural Globalisation: Miss Granny (2014) And 20 Once Again (2015) Along The Digital Road, Kai Ruo Soh, Brian Yecies Jul 2018

Korean-Chinese Film Remakes In A New Age Of Cultural Globalisation: Miss Granny (2014) And 20 Once Again (2015) Along The Digital Road, Kai Ruo Soh, Brian Yecies

Dr Brian Yecies

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