This book investigates the dynamic linkages between foreign film culture, imported films, national cultural policy and audience reception, and the significant impact that all these elements had on the transformation of cinema in Korea between 1893 and 1948.

Introduction 1. Invasion from the West, 1893-1905 2. Foreign Cinematic Spaces and the Birth of the Film Industry, 1905-1916 3. Profiting and Profiteering from the Systematization of Film Censorship, 1916-1936 4. The Coming of the Talkies to the Cinema in Colonial Korea 5. Collaborative Film Production Under Japan's War-Preparation System, 1937-1945 6. Disarming Japan's Cannons with Hollywood's Cameras: Cinema in Korea under U.S. Occupation, 1945-1948 Conclusion

Brian Yecies is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. His research focuses on film policy, the history of cinema, and the digital wave in Korea. He is a pastrecipient of prestigious research grants from the Asia Research Fund, Korea Foundation and Australia-Korea Foundation.

Ae-Gyung Shim received her PhD from the University of New South Wales with the support of a Korea Foundation Fellowship for Graduate Studies. She has taught part-time in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Wollongong, and is a 2011 Korea Foundation Post-Doctorial Fellow at the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies.