『文化朝鮮』(1939~1944)의 미디어 전략과 제국의 디스플레이- 조선의 연극·영화 기사를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to understand the media strategy of Culture Korea (former Tour Korea), a popular magazine that was published during the late period of Japanese occupation, and collect and analyze the articles and materials related to Korean drama and film that were published in it. This is a successive piece following my previous researchon this particular magazine, in which I investigated the display strategy of the empire's cameratic gaze and its chosen photographic object, Korean culture by examining the articles and pictures of Culture Korea. The analysis of articles and pictures of Korean drama and films in Culture Korea confirmed that it was a propaganda medium, through which theideology of naisenittai (Japan and Korea as one entity) was injected to both Japanese and Korean, and the earnest the home front was internalized in them. At the same time, signs of cracks within the interior of the colonizer and circumstances of (un)consciousrefusal to cooperate on the part of the colonized society were exposed in this process. This went directly against the ostentatious results that the publisher paraded as the successful accomplishment of Japanese Empire's assimilation policy. Culture Korea actively subsumed, flaunted and represented Korean drama and films through its means of visual representation such as pictures and photos. However, the verbal representation inthe relevant articles exposed that Japanization of Korea people, or the project of national drama (gukminyeongeuk) and collaboration films either completely failed or were left unfinished. It is, in fact, the polyphony and hybridity of Culture Korea, which cannot be reduced as the homogeneous product of national policy, that calls for a continuous and meticulous reading of thismedium.