林和의 조선영화론 ―영화사의 좌표와 ‘예술성과 기업성’의 변증법을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper examines the cinematic discourse of Im Hwa in the early 1940s, focusing on the dialectic concept of "artistic value of Chosun cinema." I argue that Im Hwa's "A Short History of Chosun Cinema [Choseon Yonghwa Baldal Sosa, 1941]" is a revision of an anonymous paper titled "The History of Chosun Cinema[Choseon Yonghwa Baldalsa]"published in 1940, and is included in the monograph Creation and Construction of Asian Cinema(アジア映画の創造及建設,1941) edited by Ichikawa Sai(市川彩). The production and circulation of Im Hwa's "A Short History of Chosun Cinema" comes out as a colonial government's project for researching and controlling its colonial film industry, and for positioning Chosun cinema within 'Asian Cinema' by Japanese Empire at the same time. Im Hwa's cinematic discourse is a way of intervention with this turmultous situation of reorganizing Chosun film industry by the dialectic concept of "artistic value of Chosun cinema." This concept addresses to the dominant cinematic discourse since late 1930s that considers the industrialization as the better way to improve the quality of Chosun cinema with the support of colonial government. By examining the industrialization as connected with the formation of Films for the Nation[Kukmin Yonghwa] that forces propagandization of Chosun cinema, Im Hwa tries to suggest the concept of "artistic value of Chosun cinema" that can preserve the specificity of Chosun cinema, and to respond to the nationalization in the late colonial period.