김정일의 『영화예술론』과 북한영화

Abstract

The history of North Korean cinema is divided into before and after Kim Jong-il led the film territory. Kim Jong-il was in charge of propaganda and agitation in the mid-1960s. In addition, he led the qualitative change in the literary territory with a focus on the film territory. In the process, he took the lead in the liquidation of person in the North Korean film industry and took the lead in creating so-called revolutionary films such as “Sea of Blood” with detailed guidance in all areas of production, from writing a scenario to directing, filming, acting, and making stage.Kim Jong-il’s achievements in the film territory are concentrated in his “On the Art of the Cinema”. This book is a problematic work that encompasses the development and limitations of film art during the Kim Jong-il era. This article focuses on the theory of film art and examines its system, form, and content. Also in this article, I reveal that starting with the theory of film art, the literary center of the Kim Jong-il era began to expand into fields other than film. It relates to achievements in the fields of play, literature, art, architecture, music, etc., completed from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.