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| Τίτλος: |
Projecting Korea: Performance, Translation, and Mediation in a Cold War Film Lecture, This Is Korea. |
| Συγγραφείς: |
Kim, Hahkyung Darline (AUTHOR) hadkim23@gmail.com |
| Πηγή: |
Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television. Feb2026, p1-20. 20p. 2 Illustrations. |
| Θεματικοί όροι: |
*Lectures & lecturing, *Translating & interpreting, *Koreans, *Cold War, 1945-1991, *Propaganda, *American attitudes |
| Γεωγραφικοί όροι: |
United States, Korea |
| Περίληψη: |
This article examines This Is Korea, a film lecture performed by Henry Chung DeYoung from 1953 to 1954, to understand how the live performance of translation attempted to shape American perceptions of Korea in the early Cold War. Drawing on archival materials including DeYoung’s lecture script, correspondence with Korean Pacific Press, and promotional materials, the article analyses the film lecture’s mechanisms of knowledge production through mediated dynamics of image, speech, and embodied performance. Analysis shows that the film lecture relied on visual tropes of a timeless and precarious Korea, while DeYoung’s embodied narration domesticated cultural difference and invoked American authority to frame Korea’s wartime destruction as a geopolitical obligation for the United States. Embedded in South Korean propaganda efforts, DeYoung mobilised his native expertise and racialised body to translate Korea for American audiences, positioning himself strategically between Korean insider and American authority. By situating this ephemeral performance within a longer genealogy of image-speech practices from stereographs and travelogues to wartime state-sponsored films, this article demonstrates how such mediating practice participated in constructing US public knowledge of Korea and attempted to sustain the ideological urgency of the Korean War even after the armistice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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