This paper is concerned about the 1950s Korean filmic conditions in the formation of Cold War culture.
As for the Korean Cold War system, for instance, anti-communism and anti-North Korean spirit stressed by politics, national security and military...
This paper is concerned about the 1950s Korean filmic conditions in the formation of Cold War culture.
As for the Korean Cold War system, for instance, anti-communism and anti-North Korean spirit stressed by politics, national security and military affairs constitutes the ground of cultural ideology, shaping the hatred, aggressive and exclusive culture against deviation from people's daily lives.
By investigating the significant media, films which perform global Cold War program, this paper will account for the question how the Cold War system, a major trait of world historical reorganization, has been formed culturally and specifically on a phase of nation-building. More specifically, a cultural practice denominating a film as a valuable film, on the political phase in performing the task of building a new nation since World War Ⅱ, has been effective for the mass to possess particular recognition and view, and the conditions and their relationship within this process will be explored. This study, in particular, will pursuit the traits of Cold War culture deeply in Korean Cinema lasted for long, and will special attention to the way of relation among the relative conditions of forming the Cold War culture.
Korea have experienced the courses to inscribe Cold War into Korean cultures after World War Ⅱ, particularly after Korean War. Korean film canonization was proceeded under struggle with the circumstances of the U.S. Army Military Government, and Lee Seungman's regime with anticommunism, and short of production cost and facilities, troubles within movie circles, and audience's pro-Hollywood taste, and audience's memory about the Korean War, etc. And it had process of the mechanism of adjustment for rewards and obedience for political authorities. Since through the process of the 1950's Korean film canonization, the value system for anti-North-Korea and anticommunism was manipulated in the audiences'view on the level of daily lives as well as politics in this course, hateful and militant culture toward deviation and difference was 'structured.'