북한의 소련영화 수용과 영향 1945~1953

Abstract

North Korea's film historians praise highly late 1960s-early 1970s North Korean films as "the Revolutionary Tradition of Film Art" after the foundation of "Monolithic System"(1967). Because early North Korean films were very poor in technological infrastructure, and ideological and artistic ability were insufficient. In this view, early North Korean films were treated as less important in North Korean film history. In particular, a trace of USSR films which had a lot of influence on the formation of the state became extinct. This study investigates a reception and an influence of USSR films in the formation of the North Korean people's state and film world through an empirical-positive approach making full use of the discourses of newspapers and magazines of that time. This research has two main purposes. Firstly, I examine that North Korean people were very appreciative of "liberation army" of USSR, and prospected their future identifying images of development and prosperity of USSR through watching the films of USSR. Secondly, I insist that an influence of USSR films on North Korean films was not absolute on the basis of an analysis of the discourses on a film, My Hometown(1949) although I acknowledge advanced researches which studied an influence of Stalinist theory of literature and art on North Korean films. I insist that the North Korea's unique tradition of literature and art, anti-Japanese nationalism of Kim Il-Sung was already growing up as a sprout even though I accept the influence of USSR films on the early North Korean films.