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A Study on Production and Represented Places of Korean Indie Films - Focucing from 1980 to 1987 -

Min Ah Jeong 1

1한양대학교 현대영화연구소

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The period of Chun Doo-hwan regime, 1980~1987, is usually considered as a dark age in Korean films, but it was also a time when an internal driving force was being prepared for the upcoming new wave of Korean films. In this paper I would like to discuss Korea’s early independent films which as a film movement of the established system got its momentum with changes in political situation and cultural policies. ‘Place’ is a tool to analyze the films of this period. Place meaningful to human beings is not a natural place but a place constructed by social mechanism, and this social place produces a complex of social structures. In the structured place that incorporates a whole of social system and structure we can read a certain period’s institutions, power structure, symbols, ideologies and cultures. The independent films contributed to create and expand alternative screening spaces such as university campuses, labor union offices, farming villages’ community halls, and catholic and protestant churches, and they motivated discussions not just on film aesthetics but also on alternative distribution and screening. The represented places in the independent films can be categorized into three types: suburban areas, streets and alleys, and enclosed places. Suburban areas are represented as places of the others who had been driven out of cities, the streets as places for the struggle for democracy, and the enclosed places as places of torture and horror.

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