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Aspects of Passion and Figuration in 'Mujin Gihaeng (A Trip to Mujin)' and 'An-gae (Mist)'

Hong Jaebeom 1

1건국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This thesis intends to look into the aspects of passion and figuration that appear in Kim Seung-ok's novel 'Mujin Gihaeng (A Trip to Mujin)' and its screen adaptation 'An-gae (Mist).' The origin of behavior that drives both narratives stems from psychological passion, not a specific event that occurs outside a character. It is ambivalence toward modernity that creates the structure of opposition/conflict between Seoul and a rural area. An aesthetic device that embodies it in the novel is the interior monologue from the first-person point of view. It may be said that the process of media conversion between the two texts is the applied-media aesthetic 'discovery of equivalent expressions' that are proper for 'the description of ambivalent feelings toward modernity by means of interior monologue'. That is, the key to cinematization converges into how the interior monologue is to be visualized through dramatization. Kim Seung-ok carried out the adaptation, with audience's identification with the hero in mind, due to the characteristics of the original work, that is, at the core of the work is the description of the aspects of Yun Hui-jung's inner thought and passion as well as his inner life. Employing the technique of flashback to alternate the past and the present, the 'Mist' carries out at the same time 'the delivery of information about characters' and 'the inducement of audience's involvement in situation and feelings'. This confirms that a film can reproduce mental processes by showing associative inner image sequences.

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