Cinema and Sound in East Asian Mediasphere: in the Case of Japan and Joseon in the1920s and 1930s

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K02308
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Art at large
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Joo Woojeong 名古屋大学, 人文学研究科, 助教 (40770524)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-10-21 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: サウンド・メディア / トーキー / 映画 / 1920年代 / 1930年代 / 日本 / 植民地朝鮮 / 言説分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study re-examined and reconstructed the history of sound media development in East Asia, especially in Japan and Colonial Korea, through discourse analysis. I have investigated the way how the two film industries and the critics in both Japan and Korea discussed and understood the sound media development, especially the talkie, during the period from 1920s to 1930s. The result confirms that even though the talkie as technology was accepted as an import from the United States, its actual practice depended upon the local industrial and cultural conditions that were differently applied to each of the two countries.

Free Research Field

映画学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

今まで技術の発達史として理解されてきたサウンド・メディアの歴史を言説の観点から理解することができる。またその言説の内容を通して、東アジアにおけるサウンド・メディアの発達が米国・日本・朝鮮・中国を巡る国際的かつローカルなレベルでの多層的な過程であったことも理解できる。