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A Sense of Anti-Communism and The politics of ‘Buron(不穩)’ - A Study on How to Read the Anti-Communism Film under the Park’s Regime

Yu Seungjin 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims at seeking methodology to analyze anti-communist films under the President Park Chung-hee’s regime and revealing the politics of the anti-communist system by focusing on the textuality of anti-communist films. The analyzed films here are Five Marines, The Marines Who Never Returned, The North and South, and Seven Women P.O.W. In order to analyze historicality revealed by the texts, what these films imply in the contexts of the age and the process how Seven Women P.O.W. had been discovered as a ‘Buronhan(rebellious,不穩) text’ are focused in this article. Under the discourses after 4.19 Revolution and 5.16 Coup, anti-communism was neither contrary to nor compatible with values such as ‘individual’ and ‘freedom’, and anti-communist films were not limited to the propaganda of the regime. The anti-communist films functioned as the place to expose fundamental violence of the anti-communist system, which was a text problematizing essentially the antagonism between the systems, and producing and managing agitation, by revealing an individual who cannot romanticize war. Especially, the process how Seven Women P.O.W. had been discovered as a rebellious text, makes us think directly of the point that the authority of interpretation exceeding logic inside the censorship operates as the logic to constitute the system. Therefore, this article concentrates on the aspects that the seditious texts were produced through the censoring sources on The North and South and Seven Women P.O.W.

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