1930년대 ‘식민 도시’ 경성(京城)의 영화 소비의 장 전환

Abstract

One of the transformative factors that has re-directed the realm of the cinema in colonial Korea was the move toward the nationalizing of film business that was taken in imperial Japan in the early 1930s. To mention it briefly, it was intended to protect and develop film business as a state industry. Following imperial Japan’s steps immediately, the Government-General of Korea (GGK) has promulgated a new film policy named ‘Motion Picture and Film Regulation Rule’ (No.82 ordained by the Government-General) in August 1934 and implemented the policy of ‘screen quota.’ This paper aims to examine the ‘geopolitics’ of the screen quota because the latter was one of the crucial factors that would transform the sphere of cinema consumption in colonial Korea, especially in Keijō (colonial Seoul). In the colonial city, the showing and watching of movies have long been divided between colonized Koreans and the Japanese settlers. The move toward the nationalizing of film business, along with the opening of new theaters called ‘movie palaces,’ would reconstruct the cinema of the colonial city and help to generate the ‘contact space’ between the two peoples.