The cinema is now one of the main objects on which efforts should be concentrated in order to conduct the revolution. Jong ils on the art of the cinema 1973 are two north korean cultural policy. We must systematize and generalize the glorious history of developing juche music under his leadership as well as the achievements and experience gained by our party in the creation of. On the art of the cinema is a 1973 treatise by the north korean leader kim jongil. Kim jong il is a fashion icon in 2010, the north korean media decided that kim jong il s fashion had taken the world by storm. After his father, kim il sung, kim jong il was the second of the despotic kims that have terrorized north korea for decades. Kim jong il 19412011, son of north koreas despotic kim il sung and a tyrant in his own filial right, had as many titles as he did talents, with honorifics including the sun of the nation and the shining star of paektu mountain. Juche, kim il sung, kim jong il, north korean literature, socialist realism.
Kim jongils funeral was a lesson in epic filmmaking. This work of creative nonfiction will undoubtedly catch many asiawatchers by surprise. Highfalutin nicknames aside, the younger dictator was a pretty able guy. Kim jong il s dominating personality and complete concentration of power have come to define the country north korea. Two books by north korean dictator kim jong il are available at amazon. This treatise gives a comprehensive and detailed account of all the aspects of creating and developing this form of art, such as life and literature, the cinema and directing, the character and the actor. This is what we know about kim jong il, equally as masterful at life. The cinema is now one of the main objects on which efforts should be concentrated in order to conduct the revolution in art and literature.
Pleasure squad defector sheds light on life of kim jong il. Pleasure squad defector sheds light on life of kim jong il a north korean pleasure squad recruits bizarre story of time spent with the reclusive dictator has been published on the internet. Amazon price new from used from paperback please retry. Image caption kim jong il in pyonyangs state theatre, october 2009. Soviet records show that kim jong il was born in the village of vyatskoye, near khabarovsk, in 1941, where his father, kim il sung, commanded the 1st battalion of the soviet 88th brigade, made up of chinese and korean exiles. Kim jong il, north koreas supreme leader from july 1994 until his death in dec. Kim jong il on the art of opera and on the art of the cinema. A kim jong il production centers on how kim, who died in 2011, supposedly arranged to kidnap south koreas most glamorous movie couple, the director shin sangok and his wife, the actress. Opinion north korea, trump and human rights the new. The labor that he was engaged in that day was part of a process far longer and more difficult. It is considered the most authoritative work on north korean filmmaking the book sets forth several original theories, which can be applied to the practices of filmmaking, the arts, and beyond. See all 7 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Kim jong il s mother, kim jong suk, was kim il sungs first wife.
Cecil b demille would have admired the funeral of kim jongil. As such it is a powerful ideological weapon for the revolution and construction. One of the more surprising facts about kim jong il was his love of cinema. Full text of the literary ideas of kim il sung and kim. North koreans are told he was born in a log cabin on mt paekdu, the most sacred mountain. Kim jong il s on the art of the cinema inherits and reasserts these ideas more systematically. His first truly major literary work was also on the theme, on the art of the cinema 1973.
Kim kwangjin north koreas second succession will be different from the first north korea today is in a state of power transition that could lead to new dangers, instability, and uncertainty. Film art theory is a 1973 treatise by the north korean leader kim jong il. Quotations by kim jong il, north korean leader, born february 16, 1941. Kim jong il loved movies he had a collection of more than 20,000 and his 1973 book on the art of cinema became a manual for north korean directors. An analysis of north korea using mirror imaging techniques, a term. The road of revolution covered by kim il sung and kim jong il is the road i should go rain or snow. In a widescreen film, it is better to shoot long scenes which. Its staging owes much to the hollywood movies that the dear leader so loved.
Kim jong ii seems to have been born in 1941, in the siberian village of vyatskoye. With over five books published per year in north korea, it is a. Kim jong il on the art of the cinema chong il kim home. The jong is after my mother, antijapanese heroine kim jong suk, while the il came from my father. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. Kim jong il on the art of the cinema april 11, 1973 foreign languages publishing house pyongyang, korea 1989. North korean film madness documentary part youtube. Therefore, concentrating in his preface the author states. On the art of the cinema is a 1973 treatise by the north korean leader kim jong il. To effect a revolution in the cinema, comrade kim jong il paid prime attention to fully. The kim il sung and kim jong il elibrary is provided by the korean friendship association kfa. Kim ilsungs ambitious son kim jongil joined the party central committee in 1964 and from early on, he became involved in the arts and especially in film, from. Kim jong il wrote the treatise theory of cinematic art which clarifies the theoretical and practical problems of cinematic art as a whole.
Outside of war literature, these other figures represent negative internal forces that threaten the harmony of postwar socialist society in north korea. The rest of the world knows that this never happened. And so began his eight year imprisonment in north korea, where the filmmaker had to satisfy the whims of kim jong il, then a young cinephile who wrote on the art of the cinema in 1973, and the cinema and directing in 1987 read the free pdf here. On the art of the cinema 97808987565 by kim jong il and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. Facts about north korea are thin on the ground here in america, but this book blasts open a personal history of kim jong il with a canny, graceful, and wise commentary that seems far. As a result, our country is now in the heyday of this art. It is considered the most authoritative work on north korean filmmaking. Kim jong il wrote the treatise theory of cinematic art which clarifies the theoretical and.
For instance 22 out of 46 works in volume one of his selected works 19641969 are on the topic. Treatise misullon, 1991, a work credited to the late kim jong il, that ad dresses architecture, calligraphy, cinema and stage art, costume, craft, dec oration, drawing. As such it is a powerful ideological weapon for the. Kim jongil 19412011, son of north koreas despotic kim ilsung and a tyrant in his own filial right, had as many titles as he did talents, with. Kimjongilia is a flower named after the late north korean leader kim jong il. Glow was seen atop jong il peak for half an hour from 16. Kim jong il s on the art of the cinema 1973 what a wretched fate, shin sangok, now 77, remembers thinking after the meeting with the pudgy man in the grey mao jacket. Despite its name, the kimjongilia is not the official national flower of north korea, which is the magnolia sieboldii. You could say that north korean dictator kim jong il has two primary obsessions. I will go the road of revolution they walked all their lives to the end. When kim jong il died in december 2011 the flower was used to adorn his corpse for public display. Here are a few of my favourite quotes as i not for the first time flick through kim jong il s seminal tome on how to make a film in north korea.
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