일제강점기 식민지 조선에서의 영화 검열표준과 특수성

Abstract

This study translated and analyzed the contributions of film censors included in the magazine 'Gyeongmu Wheebo' published by the Joseon Police Association, which has not been sufficiently studied so far to examine the changes in the censorship of the Japanese Government-General of Korea for films in colonial Joseon during the Japanese colonial period. As a result, it was observed that film censorship standards had been created since the 1920s when films were noticed as a subject of full-scale censorship and were strengthened several times by period. In the mid-1930s, six articles and eight clauses corresponding to Joseon's ‘special circumstances’ were added to the strengthened censorship standards, and the contemporary trend related to ideology began to be reflected in earnest. It was also confirmed that a nationalistic viewpoint was added to the censorship standards under the pretext of reflecting the flow of the state and national policy in film censorship in the early 1940s, during the wartime period. In this process, film censors went beyond the mechanical application of the censorship standards they had to apply and proceeded with arbitrary censorship, showing a trend of actively promoting the ideology and even taking the preemptive direction of agitation under the pretext of realizing national policy. In addition, it was observed that the censors were aware that the film medium brought the industrial interests of the empire, and for this purpose, they played a role in planning to realize their goods along with censorship for ideological control.