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This paper focuses on the problems of colonial legacy and post-colonial modernity in South Korean popular film in the process of making ¡°national film¡± in post-colonial South Korea. The nation-building was not only a political process but also a process which is much involved with people¡¯s emotions and imagination. Popular films in South Korea took great importance in visually imagining what ¡°nation¡± is. Thus, male elites selectively chose or constructed the national film category in order to establish what the essense of national film. Often times, these elites discourse defined post-colonial ¡°national¡± as anti-Japanism, Orientalistic beauty of Korea or the art films.
Other films that do not has such quality were regarded as ¡°low-brow¡± culture.
Thus, this paper analyzes how these elites¡¯ discourses excluded the akk?k-based popular film, when they obviously displayed the traces of colonial popular culture.
Despite the fact that many 1950s¡¯ South Korean films were made based on these colonial performances, and received very well by common people, elite discourses strongly blamed these films¡¯ inappropriateness as a national culture. Therefore, this paper will discuss the way in which colonial performances are embeded in postcolonial film, and Hollywood film techniques frame these old culture as a new and modern Korean culture by appropriating Japanese ¡°war-time¡± entertainment culture into American¡¯s. Through this analysis, I argue that the popularity of 1950s akk?k-based Korean films reveal the unceasing power of colonial modernity in post-colonial Korean society and culture, and its different reception by elites and common people,which complicates the post-colonial South Korean cultural space.