Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-207) and index
Invasion from the west, 1893-1905 -- Foreign cinematic spaces and the birth of the film industry, 1905-1916 -- Profiting and profiteering from the systematization of film censorship, 1916-1936 -- Coming of the talkies to the cinema in colonial Korea -- Collaborative film production under Japan's war-preparation system, 1937-1945 -- Disarming Japan's cannons with Hollywood's cameras: cinema in Korea under U.S. occupation, 1945-1948