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The Film Reproduction and Dialectic of Enlightenment of Reconstruction Space after the Korean War - With a focus on Korean movies made in the 1950s -

  • DONAM OHMUNHAK
  • Abbr : 돈암
  • 2018, 34(), pp.195~220
  • DOI : 10.17056/donam.2018.34..195
  • Publisher : The Donam Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature
  • Published : December 31, 2018

han Young Hyeon 1

1세명대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This study set out to investigate the meanings and characteristics of reconstruction space after the Korean War by selecting and analyzing some Korean movies made in the 1950s. By focusing on the ways that "home" and "hometown" were reproduced in these movies, the study examined the viewpoints of enlightenment revealed in the ways. In discussions about Korean movies from the 1950s, the special spaces of "home" and "hometown" are the most empowered places. These two spaces are good examples of national symbols to divide certain safe zones. The study then analyzed otherized places or urban spaces assumed to be outside these two spaces such as "streets," "dance halls" and "military camp towns" along with the meanings of people in these places. There were problems with the attempts at preventing many unspecified individuals crowding the streets and drifting around the city from wandering around with no purpose, making them return to their original places for the stability of society, or assigning them to certain spots. Finally, the study identified places to show "inside containing outside" in the arrangement of these two opposite spaces. "Home" and "hometown" as unrealistic imagined spaces can offer a methodology of enlightening practice to overcome the irrationality of reality, but they inevitably have the impossibilities of approaching the existence. Reproduced in the Korean movies in the 1950s, the places of "home" and "hometown" produced the space of "boundary" and displayed certain instability, possibilities of contamination, and impossibilities inherent in the perfect organization process of society and state.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.