Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Joseon cinema: the question of film history and the film culture of colonial Korea
  • The beginning: towards a mass entertainment
  • Joseon cinema, cinematic Joseon: on some critical questions of Joseon cinema
  • Migrating with the movies: Japanese settler film culture
  • Colonial film spectatorship: nationalist enough?
  • Film spectatorship and the tensions of modernith
  • Conclusion: integrating into the imperial cinema.