Smertin, Y THE HISTORY OF KOREAN SINPHA THEATER: THE BIRTH OF A NEW GENRE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2022;44(6):67–74. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2022.798


World history

THE HISTORY OF KOREAN SINPHA THEATER: THE BIRTH OF A NEW GENRE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Smertin
Yu. G. 		Kuban State University
Keywords:
Korea
Japan
theater
Shinp’a
culture
tradition
modernization		 Summary: The relevance of research is determined by the weak study and insufficient comprehension of the processes of the cultural landmarks transformation of Korean society in the conditions of colonial dependence on Japan. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that there are no works in Russian historiography devoted to the formation and development of the Shinp’a theatre. In Western historical science, there are only some mentions of this cultural phenomenon or brief articles in theatrical encyclopedias and reference books. The purpose of this article is to investigate the formation of modern Korean theater culture under the conditions of colonial dependence on Japan. To achieve the goal requires to solve the following problems: first, to indicate the impact of Japanese culture on Korean colonial society; second, to trace the emergence and formation of the Korean Shinp’a theater; third, to analyze the techniques and methods of influence of actors on the audience; and fourth, to identify the main trends of the new theater. The issues mentioned are considered in connection with foreign and domestic political conditions of colonial Korea. The following research methods are used in the work: the principle of historicism, which implies the study of events and phenomena of the past with regard to historical features and cause-and-effect relations; the civilizational approach to the study of history used to study the cultural characteristics of Korean society that influenced the processes of its modernization in the early twentieth century. The article shows that, despite the Japanese origin of the Shinp’a theatre, its reproduction and modification in Korea met the needs of a society that was striving to get out of centuries of cultural isolation. It is concluded that the Shinp’a theatre laid the foundations of Korean theater art, and the genre of melodrama has become largely identifying for modern popular cinema art.



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