@article{ART003343733},
author={Hwang, Shea and Younghee Noh},
title={Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon},
journal={Journal of Humanities},
issn={1598-8457},
year={2026},
number={101},
pages={189-212}
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AU - Hwang, Shea
AU - Younghee Noh
TI - Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon
JO - Journal of Humanities
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 101
PB - Institute for Humanities
SP - 189
EP - 212
SN - 1598-8457
AB - This study examines the cinematic strategies used to represent female artists engaged in disappearing traditional performance art forms, as well as their aesthetic implications, with a focus on director Yoo Su-yeon’s documentary Sugung (Sugung-The Underwater Palace). Specifically, it analyzes how the film visualizes long-forgotten artistic sensibilities through audiovisual representations of rehearsal and performance centered on pansori, the use of cross-cutting and juxtaposition, and close-ups of bodies and voices.
By persistently capturing the performing bodies and faces of pansori singers, Sugung extends the auditory art of pansori into the visual realm, thereby revealing a reconfiguration of sensory perception. In this process, the film goes beyond the mere documentation of a vanishing genre, instead highlighting the importance and continuity of artistic transmission through the practices of younger generations who seek to inherit this tradition.
Furthermore, the film participates in the recovery of an art form that is fading amid modernization and cultural change, while simultaneously reconfiguring the boundaries between art and everyday life, and between tradition and modernity. In this regard, this study argues that the film meaningfully brings invisible and marginalized voices to the fore through cinematic devices and, by proposing a new configuration of sensibility, extends disappearing arts and their memories into the sensory realm that goes beyond historical documentation.
KW - Sugung;Yoo Su-yeon;Female Artists;Pansori;The Distribution of Time;The Distribution of the Sensible
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Hwang, Shea and Younghee Noh. (2026). Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon. Journal of Humanities, 101, 189-212.
Hwang, Shea and Younghee Noh. 2026, "Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon", Journal of Humanities, no.101, pp.189-212.
Hwang, Shea, Younghee Noh "Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon" Journal of Humanities 101 pp.189-212 (2026) : 189.
Hwang, Shea, Younghee Noh. Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon. 2026; 101 : 189-212.
Hwang, Shea and Younghee Noh. "Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon" Journal of Humanities no.101(2026) : 189-212.
Hwang, Shea; Younghee Noh. Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon. Journal of Humanities, 101, 189-212.
Hwang, Shea; Younghee Noh. Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon. Journal of Humanities. 2026; 101 189-212.
Hwang, Shea, Younghee Noh. Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon. 2026; 101 : 189-212.
Hwang, Shea and Younghee Noh. "Resistance to Disappearance: A Study of Time and Reconfiguration of Sensibility in the Documentary Sugung Directed by Yoo Su-yeon" Journal of Humanities no.101(2026) : 189-212.
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