The Origin of Koreanness: Understanding the Gender of Modernity in the Wartime Films of Late Colonial Korea, 1937-1945

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dc.contributor.advisorKim, Janice
dc.contributor.authorKim, Jihong
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T21:19:12Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T21:19:12Z
dc.date.copyright2024-04-05
dc.date.issued2024-07-18
dc.date.updated2024-07-18T21:19:11Z
dc.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the popular origins of ethno-cultural subjectivity during the dawn of the cinematic age that, for Koreans, intersected with Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945). More specifically, it looks at films produced during the time of mobilization for the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific War between 1937 and 1945, with attention to how the complex process of turning the peninsula’s human resources into participatory subjects of the Shōwa Emperor (1926–1989) affected Korean productivity and reproductivity. The contradictions of war mobilization of Koreans by the Japanese Empire created common gender representations in late colonial Korean films. Mobilization of adolescent male fantasies, whose aspiration for filial piety and patriarchal restoration, suppressed by colonial discrimination, materialized in queerness. Through the use of gender, culture, and colonialism as analytical lenses, this thesis argues that colonial subjects have come to sustain the system that restrained them, believing instead in the promises of individual mobility.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42138
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subjectAsian studies
dc.subject.keywordsCultural studies
dc.subject.keywordsRepresentation
dc.subject.keywordsColonialism
dc.subject.keywordsEmpire
dc.subject.keywordsFilm
dc.subject.keywordsFemininities
dc.subject.keywordsMasculinities
dc.subject.keywordsFamily
dc.titleThe Origin of Koreanness: Understanding the Gender of Modernity in the Wartime Films of Late Colonial Korea, 1937-1945
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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