Introduction Books DVDs	Home > Institute> Books [Illumination Series Vol.2] Han Hyung-mo: The Alchemist of Popular Genres (2008) Korean ver. 10,000won | 141 page | soft cover English ver. not for sale | 152 page | soft cover This is the second result of the ‘Illumination Series’ jointly planned and published by the Korean Film Archive and the Pusan International Film Festival. The 2nd illumination series, ‘Han Hyeong-mo: Melodrama/Genre Alchemist’ after the first one, ‘Kim Seung-ho: Face of Father, Portrait of Korean Cinema’ provides illumination from various perspectives of the life and films of director Han Hyeong-mo, who was the protagonist of the 13th Pusan International Film Festival Retrospective Exhibition. He pioneered the genre and grammar of popular Korean cinema in the 1950s. The writers for this series include researchers Jo Joon-hyeong and Jeong Jong-hwa at the Korean Film Archive, visiting professor Kim Seon-a at Chung-Ang Univ. Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Digital/Science Photography, and HK research professor Oh Yeong-sook at Sungkonghoe University. The series also contains a retrospective interview with director Kim Kee-duk about director Han Hyeong-mo’s production style and characteristics. Director Kim Kee-duk, who directed ‘Barefooted Youth,’ worked as assistant director on ‘Pure Love,’ which was directed by Han Hyeong-mo. Contents Message Forward The Front Line of Korean Popular Movies in 1950's Realistic but Popular : Theorizing of Han Hyung-mo The Dilemma of Modern Times The TechnicalAdvancement of Cinematic Style in Korean Cinema Interview with director Kim Kee-duk Synopsis Filmography [Children’s Cinema Education Book 3] Sense Awakening Film Creation Plays (2007) 8,000won | 99 page | 190×230 | soft cover This filmmaking workshop textbook uses picture-rich content to provide an understanding of the entire filmmaking process, illustrations and simple play practices designed to foster children’s sensitivity and imagination. This program was performed together with children from ‘After School’ in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province. Over 10 children confirmed the feasibility of the program contained in this book. It includes association and media plays that awaken children’s senses so that they can feel filmmaking is a delightful part of their daily routines. In the course of following the program, children naturally learn by experience that playing with a camera helps them gain a better understanding of making a movie. [Children’s Cinema Education Book 2] Five Short Films for Children (2007) 8,000won | 99 page | 190×230 | soft cover This book is a film appreciation textbook for developing your ability to read and write a movie through the five Korean, Canadian, British, and U.S. short films contained in DVDs as appendixes. It helps children understand the abstract film language through these five movies. The book is designed to enable children to follow the thinking course of the writer (director) who tries to creatively express his thoughts in his own way through each film. It provides background information on the characters and narrative structure of each film and then gives a detailed description of film techniques and languages. [Children’s Cinema Education Book 1] Children! Let’s Make Friends with the Cinema! (2007) 12,000won | 101 page | 260×190 | Bound in Western style This picture book uses an easy-to-understand depiction of three little protagonists, Chinchin, Mongyi and Noma’s fantastic tour of the cinema world. One day Chinchin, Mongyi and Noma obtain a camera by chance and Dicky, their nice friend, who pops out of the camera, guides them to the exciting cinema world, where there is a bag full of stories telling how the films that amuse and move us were born and made. By following the three protagonists’ fantastic travel, the book gives an interesting display of the entire filmmaking process, covering the people who make movies, special effects, editing, sound, etc. Some pictures with the cute and comic protagonists inside also reveal interestingly edited film characters that are familiar to the reader. Enjoy traveling through the cinema world. [FILMStory Series 06] Lee Jang-ho vs. Bae Chang-ho - the Front Line of Korean Cinema (2007) 8,000won | 176 page | 130×190 | soft cover While the existing books of the Film People’s Verbal Series published by the Korean Film Archive carry the weight of records, “Lee Jang-ho vs. Bae Chang-ho” written by film critic Kim Yeong-jin, editor at Film 2.0, is reassessing the two film elders in more popular-style language and contents. Kim Yeong-jin intensively illuminates the respective film worlds and lives of directors Lee Jang-ho and Bae Chang-ho, who marked an epoch in the history of Korean cinema from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. By means of his unique and popular writing method, he shows the two directors’ dramatic film experiences and their lifetime achievements in the form of a critical biography that is written in a plain and easy-to-read style. [FILMStory Series 05] Freeze the Film - 30 Movies, 30 Scenes (2007) 8,000won | 136 page | 130×190 | soft cover Reporter Kim Hye-ri from ‘Cine 21’ faintly unfolds 30 Korean Movies as indicated by the title of this book, which is a film essay containing the traces of her having stayed up all night with the movies and professed her affection for the cinema for a long time. While watching movies from different times, starting with “Secret Sunshine” and moving back to the 1961 film, “A Coachman”, Kim Hye-ri set her eyes on 30 Korean movies. Each scene enlivened by her fine sensibility seems to pop out of each respective one of the 30 films. It can be safely said that the book is a poetic motion picture composed of 30 scenes as well as an ‘image quilt woven from writings’ that contain her sincere heart. The author expresses her sympathy with the theme of a movie using a short sentence. She also picks out a scene in a movie clearly, or sometimes sharply, using a single word. [FILMStory Series 04] Touring the Modernization of the Fatherland ? Park Chung-hee Governement’s Propaganda Drive, 10 Years of “Paldogangsan” (2007) 8,000won | 152 page | 130×190 | soft cover This book, written by Kim Han-sang, researcher at the Korean Film Archive, is an interesting plan to tour the sections of the modern state building project during the period of the Park Chung-hee administration through the “Paldogangsan” Series. “Paldogangsan (the Land of Korea)”, the first book of a series that was produced in 1967, was also presented as a popular KBS drama series in 1974. Kim Han-sang pays attention to this: In fact this series was typical of the Park Chung-hee Era’s propaganda. The author insists that by smoothly containing Park Chung-hee government’s things from its detailed policies to its ultimate utopia, the “Paldogangsan” series integrates the audience into its people, its nation. Various characteristics appearing in the movie, such as the family comedy mode and the family·gender distinction policy, speed depiction and the construction of the Gyeongbu Expressway, space depiction and the New Community Movement, the travel movie-style characteristics and the national integration policy, etc. are described in association with the then political·social reality. [FILMStory Series 03] Gwang-su’s Film Factory ? How a Movie Is Made (2007) 8,000won | 240 page | 130×190 | soft cover Kimjo Gwang-su, president of Youth Film, a filmmaking company, has produced 10 movies. This writing provides the reader with a step-by-step introduction to the whole process of making a movie from planning and development to distribution after completion. It reads as if he were showing visiting school students around a factory. Illustrations and tables are properly arranged so that you may peruse information required in the filmmaking process. The author gives an earnestly realistic description of the process used for his movies and reference pictures presented as example cases. Each paragraph has an anecdote titled ‘Gwang-su’s Episode’ like a conte, which he experienced in the course of making movies, thus providing an insider’s view of the hidden pains behind the process of filmmaking. The author also gives a vivid description of seeking and being shunned by investors on the grounds that his movie project would be ‘unprofitable.’ [FILMStory Series 02] Director Kim Gi-yeong, the Brand of Legends (2007) 8,000won | 168 page | 130×190 | soft cover Kim Gi-yeong’s legend-like life, and legendary movies are objects of admiration from Korean film researchers. Because of this, a relatively larger amount of film research is devoted to the director. A lot of movie fans, however, still don’t know who Kim Gi-yeong is. Even a relatively smaller number of movie fans who know of Kim Gi-yeong still think he is just a weird film director. Maybe this is due to the fact that the research results have not been properly presented, but it must also be attributable to the intricacy of Kim Gi-yeong’s movies. This book should go a long way in correcting this shortcoming. Lee Yeon-ho, editor-in-chief of ‘Kino’, who has been closely acquainted with director Kim Gi-yeong while working as a film journalist for almost 20 years, provides an easy-to-read and insightful interpretation of director Kim Gi-yeong’s intricate movies. [FILMStory Series 01] A History of Korean Cinema - 100 Years of Korean Movies in One Book (2007) 8,000won | 271 page | 130×190 | soft cover Another book has been added following the books authored by film elders and senior film historians. Unlike existing Korean film history books, this treatise offers readers a convenient pocket-sized book with a wealth of knowledge on Korean film’s 100-year history. The layout takes researchers and casual readers through the ins and outs of the industry using a host of pictures and posters. As the author Jeong Jong-wha, Korean film history researcher, said in the preface, he made it “the direction of work” to arrange the 100-year history of the Korean cinema in a refined way using characters and images. Koryo Film Association and New Film System (2007) 20,000won | 312 page | soft cover The Korean Film Archive has published a film database book illuminating the ‘Joseon-yeongwha (Korean films)’ during the Japanese colonial rule through the Korean film image materials collected by the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute. This book deals mainly with the ‘New Film System’ launched following the enforcement of the ‘Korean Film Act’ in 1940 as well as the Koryo Film Association led by Lee Chang-yong, who produced and distributed the movies, ‘Tuition’ (Choi In-kyu, Bang Han-jun, 1940), ‘An Angel without a House’ (Choi In-kyu, 1941), Miles Away from Happiness’ (Jun Chang-keun, 1941), etc. as the leader of a new force in the Chosun (Korean) film world. Containing the first collection of materials including articles and propaganda from then Japanese newspapers or magazines and materials from Korean newspapers, magazines, etc. together with bibliographical explanations by three researchers into old movies, the book will serve as a valuable reference for those who study Korean film history as well as readers interested in the period of Japanese colonial rule of Korea. [ Korean Films Verbal Series 03 ] Speak on Korean Cinema: The Renaissance of Korean Films 3 (2007) 20,000won | 576 page | soft cover Verbal Series 4 published by the Korean Film Archive. This book is based on interviews with Kim Young-hee (editor), Kim Jin (planner), Kim Hye-jeong (actress), Park Jin-soo (lighting), Shim Wu-seob (director), Lyou Jae-hyoung (photography), Lee Jae-woong (sound recording), Jeon Gye-hyeon (actress), Jeon Gyeong-seob (theater), and Cho Kyung-hwan (art director), who went into the motion picture world around 1960 and cultivated the renaissance of the Korean film industry. The book not only covers directors, actors, and actresses; it also lists various stories behind the cinema world by extending its coverage scope to technical personnel for photography, lighting, editing, etc., and to planning, theaters, etc. that have drawn little historical attention. It contains the film elders’ long-ago-told testimonial stories from cinematic experiences in cities and provincial areas during the Japanese colonial rule to the landscapes of the film world in the late 1950s and 1960s and to collaborative films between Korea and Hong Kong in the 1970s as well. The value of the book as a Korean film history study book is heightened by supplementing it with a bibliographical explanation of each film elder by researchers, a detailed table of contents, keywords, and indexes. It also has an appendix containing a list of cinema people and their organizational charts, thus providing deeper information to the researchers of Korean film history and the general public. [ Iilumination Series Vol.1 ] Kim Seung-ho: Face of Father, Portrait of Korean Cinema (2007) 10,000won | 148 page | soft cover | Korean This is the first book of the ‘Illumination Series’ jointly planned and published by the Korean Film Archive and the Pusan International Film Festival. It was planned in October 2007 together with the Korean Film Retrospective Exhibition, “Kim Seung-ho: Face of Father, Portrait of Korean Cinema” also jointly held by the Korean Film Archive and the Pusan International Film Festival. This book consists of three parts: Gong Yeong-min’s writing, “Actor Class, Human Class - Kim Seung-ho’s Cinema and Life”, which describes Kim Seung-ho as an actor; Kim Han-sang’s writing, “Between Support for and Defection from the Industrial Modernization Hegemony”, which uses a political interpretation to explain Kim Seung-ho’s star image in the 1960s; and Lee Gil-seong’s writing, “Father Called by the Times, Kim Seung-ho”, which describes Kim Seung-ho’s place in the genre of family dramas. The book also contains the filmography of works and special project works in which Kim Seung-ho played together with synopsis information on his 25 representative works, making it a good reference for understanding actor Kim Seung-ho. [ Iilumination Series Vol.1 ] Kim Seung-ho: Face of Father, Portrait of Korean Cinema (2007) Not for sale | 132 page | soft cover | English This book is an English edition of the ‘Illumination Series’ jointly planned and published by the Korean Film Archive and the Pusan International Film Festival. More specifically, it is an English translation of the Korean edition titled ‘Kim Seung-ho: Face of Father, Portrait of Korean Cinema’. The book contains three pieces of writing that illuminate from mutually different perspectives the life and acting of Kim Seung-ho, who was a representative actor of the Korean cinema. His filmography is also contained in it as an appendix. It will serve as a valuable source for overseas researchers in studying the history of Korean films and Korean culture. [ Korean Films Research Material Series 04 ] Korean Films in Newspaper Articles 1962-1964 (2006) Not for sale | 1,341 page | hard cover This is a follow-up book to ‘Korean Films in Newspaper Articles 1958-1961’. It contains over 2,800 articles about Korean films carried in daily newspapers between 1962 and 1964. Readers can learn about the renaissance of Korean film through the historical materials covered by this book. The researchers who contributed to this book include Cho Joon-hyeong (Korean Film Archive), Lee Woo-seok (doctoral course at Chung-Ang University), Yoon Hye-sook (doctoral course at Dongguk University), and Cho Oe-sook. [ Korean Films Verbal Series 03 ] Speak on Korean Cinema: The Renaissance of Korean Films 2 (2006) 20,000 won | 480 page | A5 | soft cover The third successful result of the Korean Film Archive’s Film Elders’ Verbal Film History Project. This book illuminates the ‘Renaissance of the Korean Film’ in the mid-1960s through the rich and profound oral testimonies of 10 Korean film elders including directors Ahn Hyun-chul and Yang Jong-hae, actor Yang Il-min, scenario writer Shin Bong-seung, special effects engineer Lee Mun-geol, lighting engineer Ham Wan-seob, and costume designer Lee Hae-yoon. It contains interesting testimonies by the film elders who were active on film production sites, fulfilling their respective roles in art, makeup, props, costume design, etc. together with pictures of those days. [ Korean Film History Review Vol.2 ] A History of Korean Cinema - from 1970s through 1990s (2006) Not for sale | 210 page | soft cover This is the second book of the planned Korean Film History Review series to introduce foreigners to the Korean film history. It is an English translation of some manuscripts from two books, ‘A Study of the Korean Film History 1960-1970’ and ‘A Study of the Korean Film History 1980-1997’ published by the Korean Film Archive. It summarizes the history of Korean films between 1970 and the 1990s. The book will serve as a useful guide to film researchers from foreign countries who want to have basic knowledge of the Korean film history. [ Film Preservation Guide ] The Film Preservation Guide-The Basics For Archives, Libraries, and Museums (2006) Not for sale | 138 page | soft cover This book was published by the US National Film Preservation Foundation in 2004, and its original title is “The Film Preservation Guide-The Basics For Archives, Libraries, and Museums”. The book, which gives a good description of basic and practical know-how on film preservation, is expected to be greatly helpful not only to film preservation experts but also to students majoring in film-related subjects who want to study film preservation, such as students belonging to the Dept. of Library and Information Science, the Dept. of Records and Archives Management, the Dept. of Cultural Property Conservation Science, or the Dept. of Film and Digital Media. Author: US National Film Preservation Foundation [ Filmography of Director Lee Man-hee ] Film Prodigy Lee Man-hee (2005) 15,000 won | 270 page | soft cover This book was created as a handbook for the exhibition “Filmography of Director Lee Man-hee” hosted by the Korean Film Archive in May of 2006. The handbook is full of valuable resources on director Lee Man-hee’s life, information on individual films, introduction of people who worked with director Lee Man-hee and their interviews, images of his films and of the director himself. At a time when people have high interests regarding the director, this will prove to be fundamental historical data in arranging Lee Man-hee’s life and his film work. [ Korean Films Verbal Series 02 ] Speak on Korean Cinema: The Renaissance of Korean Films 1 (2005) 20,000 won | 462 page | soft cover This is the second product of the Korean Film Archive’s senior film personnel oral history project. Ten senior film workers such as director Kim Ki-duk, Lee Gang-won, actors Lee Gyeong-hee, Lee Min, Yoon In-ja, cameraman Seo Jeong-min, Jeong Jo-myeong, lighting engineer Park Chang-ho, critic Im Yeong, and scenario writer Han Woo-jeong come together to shed light upon the ‘Renaissance of Korean films’ of the late 1950s through their deep and rich verbal accounts. Kim Gi-deok, who started off the boom of youth movies with , director Lee Min who made , which was the greatest controversy of the 1950s, actress Yoon In-ja, who is famous for appearing in Korea’s first kiss scene in , and Seo Jeong-min and Jeon Jo-myeong, who are still working as cameramen, and Han Woo-jeong, the scenario writer who worked with director Lee Man-hee, all have interesting stories to tell with vivid photographs from their personal photo albums. [ Korean Film History Research Material Series 03 ] Korean Films in Newspaper Articles 1958-1961 (2005) Not for sale | 1,130 page | hard cover A sequel to the <Korean Films in Newspaper Articles 1945-1957> published in 2004. Approximately 3,000 articles related to Korean films that appear in major daily newspapers from 1958 to 1961 have been selected and organized. The crucial 4 years when Korean film was entering a period of renaissance are vividly reproduced through abundant historical resources. Jo Joon-hyeong of the Korean Film Archive, Ph.D. student Lee Woo-seok of Chungang University, Ph.D. student Yoon Hye-sook of Dongguk University, and Jo Oei-sook participated as researchers. [ Korean Film History Research Series 02 ] Korean Film Studies 1980~1997 (2005) 15,000 won | 312 page | A4 | soft cover This is a sequel to Book 01. The book is a compilation of Korean film history from 1980-1997. Korean film history from the 1980s to the 1990s is divided into aesthetics, genre, policy, industry, and criticism and experts from each field prepared the manuscript. This is the first book to make a systematic and serious approach to Korean film history of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Film critic Yoo Ji-na, Mun Jae-cheol, Kang So-won and Jo Joon-hyeong from the Korean Film Archive participated as authors. A History of Korean Cinema (2005) Not for sale | 193 page | soft cover This book is the first in the series of Korean Film History Review, part of the project to introduce Korean film history to foreigners. Book 1 is a translation of the entire manuscript of Korean Film Archive’s and parts of into English. The book is an overall introduction of Korean film history from 1945 to 1960. This book will serve as a useful guide to film scholars in other countries, who wish to obtain basic knowledge about Korean film history. Speak on Korean Cinema : Reflections on 1950s Korean Cinema (2004) 18,000 won | 440 page | A5 | soft cover This book, the fruit of an interview project with senior cinema experts in 2004, is the first volume in a series. The Korean Film Archive plans to publish a book every year using the interviews of Korean senior cinema experts, which will continue to be conducted on a regular basis. This year, the Archive completed 60 recordings with 22 senior cinema individuals in total, as direct witnesses of Korean film development who were in the field producing film culture in the 1950s. Their reflections were recorded on about 200 DVCAM tapes. The interviews were transcribed from the tapes in their entirety and reorganized into publishable form. The result is the book, . This book contains all the major cinema players: directors Noh Jinseop, Park Sangho, Ha Hansu; programmers Kim Ingi, Hwang Nam; recorder Son Inho; artist Noh Intaek; actors/actresses Lee Taekgyun, Im Haelim, Choi Jihui; dubbing artist Lee Hyegyeong; writers Kim Jiheon, Choi Seokgyu; musician Jeon Jeonggeun; journalist Kang Daeseon; lighting technicians Kim Seokjin, Ma Yongcheon; cameraman Hong Donghyeok; reviewer Ho Hyeokchan; editors Kim Huisu, Lee Doweon; special effects Choi Hyeongrae. It also includes testimonies and photographs of those who were very important in the field of Korean cinema but who were not in the limelight. will provide invaluable information not only to film scholars but also to those that simply love Korean film. [ Korean Film History Research Series 01 ] Korean Film Studies 1960 to 1979 (2004) 15,000 won | 272 page | A5 | soft cover The book is a comprehensive look at the Korean film history between 1960 and 1979. It is categorized into ascetics, genres, industries, skills, theater culture and so on, and each part was written by experts in the given field. Considering that there has been no comprehensive book on Korean film history despite an increasing interest in Korean film these days, this book seems all the more important. In addition, the appendix includes a chronological table of 1960s and 1970s film history and tables of changes in cinema and performance skills. [ Korean Film History Research Material Series 02 ] The Korean Cinema in Newspapers: 1945-1957 (2004) Not for sale | 837 page | hard cover This book is a collection of newspaper articles from 1945, right after Liberation, to 1957, when Korean cinema was beginning to rise. This book is an extensive compilation of more than 2,000 related articles from a variety of newspapers including minor publications such as Art Sources, ChosunJungang, Jungoe as well as five major dailies such as Chosun, Donga, Kyeonghyang, Hanguk, and Seoul. It will be especially helpful for grasping the cinema circle during the period from 1945 to 1950 when there was little research on Korean cinema. The articles are chronologically arranged by year, and the index of articles, actors, actresses, and film titles in the back of the book will serve as a great historical reference tool. [ Korean Film History Research Material Series 01 ] Traces of Korean Cinema from 1945~1959 (2003) 18,000 won | 326 page | A5 | soft cover You can also see posters and stills from the period between 1945 and 1959, which will help readers understand the state of Korean cinema at that time. The book consists of three chapters. The first chapter, , discusses the Korean cinema circle and films from the period right after Liberation; social and political realities; cultural and artistic trends; the Chosun Film Alliance; and the American military occupation in Korea. The second chapter covers: Korean films made during the war which became the starting point for the growth of Korean film; the producing skills and activities of cinema technicians of the time; production equipment and facilities; the plethora of foreign films; and the basis for the incipient Korean film industry's growth. It presents film production realities after the war, the intrusion of American film with capitalist principles, and the extent of the public's interest in motion pictures. In the third chapter <1950s Korean Cinema>, you can witness: the production trend; the boom of the melodrama; (Jayu Buin), which adopted a modernistic way of thinking and became the emblem of resistance; images of women and men; the dualistic attitude toward modernity; and the narrative format and traces of it in 1950s Korean film. The book also features posters and visual materials which are regarded as historically important to promote understanding of film history, thereby presenting a fact-based, post-war Korean film history. You can also learn about other aspects, such as the economic intrusion of a world power in the advancement of American film in the Korean film market after Liberation, the knowledge of which helps in understanding the present-day debate on screen quotas. Furthermore, the brief synopses are a great help in grasping how Korean cinema has developed. In addition, this book features English translations to help foreigners who are interested in Korean film history.