This research is analysing the historical and social meaning of female spectators in colonial period. On colonial period, it is very difficult to reveal their experiences just because they were represented negatively in main discourse and they were tr...
This research is analysing the historical and social meaning of female spectators in colonial period. On colonial period, it is very difficult to reveal their experiences just because they were represented negatively in main discourse and they were treated as outsider. Even though these difficulties, this study tried to reconstruct the experiences of female spectators and the meaning of them in cinematic history. In chapter2, this study reveals the prejudice that female spectators were unsound persistently had been maintained until late 1920s. However this criticism and bias were weakened gradually. It was same time that women`s watching movies became recognized as fairly modern hobby. In chapter3, this study also reveals that unlike the public discourse, Chosun films reflected female taste in narrative. Especially group of gisaeng was very important spectators in that period. So there were so many movies that reflect their taste. Chapter 4 is analysing the psychological aspects that female spectator could experience, watching movie. The consolation and compensation through the identification with heroines who were suffering from unhappiness were the main psychological aspects that they could have. It can be said that female spectators including not only gisaeng but also female students, housewives who were regulated by a patriarchy had gotten the similar pleasure though watching movie.