Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea’s Film and Transportation

In his book Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea’s Film and Transportation, Hansang Kim argues that the introduction of two modern technologies, cinematographic media and powered transportation, “transformed Korean people’s protocols of sensing the world, constituting hegemonic modes of movement through visual experiences” (1). Kim emphasizes that the intertwining of these two modern technologies has more significance in establishing the scopic regimes of the non-Western world like colonial and postcolonial Korea. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the scopic regimes of visual mobility in Korea, spanning over a century of colonial and postcolonial eras. The scopic regimes entailed forced and induced spectatorship of propaganda, playing a pivotal role in shaping mobilized subjectivities. The act of sensing the world and locating oneself as a subject through cinematic experiences extended beyond mere conformity to power but encompassed alternative possibilities as well. By drawing from a diverse range of sources, this book...