When Korean films are reviewed, the periods of 1940’ in the Japanese ruling last era and the 1970’ in the period of Yushin resime have continuously provoked controversy and be said as the dark ages. The films in these two periods were subjected to...
When Korean films are reviewed, the periods of 1940’ in the Japanese ruling last era and the 1970’ in the period of Yushin resime have continuously provoked controversy and be said as the dark ages. The films in these two periods were subjected to government power so that they were deprived their freedom of creative activities by the control and censorship. These control and censorship were also intervened in the process of film production, and resulted in the publicity films of national policies.
It was very natural that the film industry dominated by government power was subordinated by them. In the films produced aforesaid two periods, we can easily find out such subordination through being represented the propaganda ideology. In this thesis, I have tried to check facts of the times which were that ; to revise of the films regulation by making amendment legislation, to set up the control organization by the revision of the films regulation, and finally to produce the publicity films of national policies by the control organization. For checking the ideology of propaganda and agitation at that time, I’d like to analyze 〈Chosun Hayeop〉 directed by Park Gi Chae and 〈Jeungeun〉 directed by Lim Kwontaek which are the kind of representative for the publicity films of national policies.
Though the political and social circumstances of 〈Chosun Hayeop〉 and 〈Jeungeun〉 were different, I can find out that those two movies was surely tried to spread the specific aimed national ideology.
I can see that they adopted the form of melodrama so that they expected to spread the effective propaganda ideology to the public. And the feminine form, the military draft, the propaganda ideology for anti-communism that were required the national demand of that times have been reconfirmed in those movies as well.
As the medium of film have a great ripple effect to the people, the government power was eagle to govern and control it as the effective instrument of propaganda and agitation by making amendment legislation, setting up the control organization. What I could find out in those two films that they were the reflection of the era, used for political instrument and propaganda char