EMPIRE AND COLONIALISM: FILMMAKING IN MANCHURIA AND KOREA II

Week 13★Jan 11^th Screening: Spring of Korean Peninsula, Dir. Directed by LEE Byung-Ii, 1941

Sweet Dreams, Dir. Yang Joo-nam, 1936

+ Moving Images from Godfilmofond (newsreel etc. from the 1930s-40s)

Week 14★Jan 18^th   Lecture & Discussion

Required Readings

Baskett, Michael. The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan,

84-105 [download the whole book HERE, please read the right pages]

Yecies, BM & Shim, AG, “Lost Memories of Korean Cinema: Film Policy

During Japanese Colonial Rule, 1919-1937”, Asian Cinema, Fall/Winter 2003,

14(2) [CLICK HERE]

Reference Reading:

[more specifically dealing with Sweet Dreams from gendered perspective]

Taylor-Jones, K. (2018). Shopping, sex, and lies: Mimon g/ Sweet Dreams (1936) and the disruptive process of colonial girlhood. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 10(2), 98-114. [click HERE]

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