조선영화의 만주 유입― 만선일보의 순회영사를 중심으로

Abstract

Seven Chosun-yonghwa(early Korean Film)s discovered in China from 2005 through 2006, let us recognize that the study of Korean Film History nowadays can no longer kept inside the Korean Peninsula. There once lived in Manchuria 2.3 million Koreans before the liberation of Korea. Man-ei(Manchurian Motion Picture Association) imported quite many Chosun-yonghwa films in the need of propagandism toward Korean Manchurians. However, there are few specific researches about it until now. This paper thoroughly examined Mansun-ilbo(Manchuria-Chosun Daily News), the only Korean newspaper published in Manchuria, to know how Chosun-yonghwa was spread and received all over Manchuria. It is revealed in that process that Mansun-ilbo took an important part, as Korean Manchurians' main ethnic media, in the screening tours for the people. In addition, it develop what was like the actual conditions of cinemas in Manchuria and also of Chosun-yonghwa films showed there through a careful look on cinema advertisements and cinema sections of Mansun-ilbo. Also this newspaper demonstrates the different spectatorships between Koreans in Chosun and Koreans in Manchuria through the articles about Story of Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon(Janghwa Hongryeon Jeon) and Miles Away from Happiness(Bok-ji-man-li). Grounded my results above, I suggest the need of writing new Korean film history across the borders, which admits the existence of spectatorship(s) because no single understanding is enough for a film.