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How to make Explainable Bizarre Characteristics ―Genre Characteristics of Horror Films in the 1960s established by Censorship

  • The Journal of Korean drama and theatre
  • 2021, (72), pp.99-134
  • DOI : 10.17938/tjkdat.2021..72.99
  • Publisher : The Learned Society Of Korean Drama And Theatre
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : May 12, 2021
  • Accepted : June 1, 2021
  • Published : June 30, 2021

Arum Song 1

1연세대학교 매체와예술연구소

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ABSTRACT

Horror films were produced by the influence of foreign films at the beginning of the 1960s when there was unclear awareness of genre film. By their genre characteristics, these films could not but run into brutality and premodern awareness, which were important criteria of censorship, and censorship shows an interesting movement of influencing genre characteristics, proposing a direction for modification rather than disapproving these films. Censorship would set off brutality by proposing a modification to an event that did not actually took place like a trick or illusion for expressions in which cruelty was revealed, which was one of the important censorship of the times and would convert the appearance of a ghost which went against premodern awareness to a story in an explainable category by asking to change into an event made up by a living person. Accordingly, a horror film, a genre that newly appeared came to be similar to a mystery or thriller genre dealing with explainable incidents. And yet, audiences showed interest in films in which a revengeful spirit appeared like a fairy tale rather than these films. These works made a ghost with a sad story to put distance from cruelty and got over premodernism with the setting in which a ghost appeared unrelated to reality. It is easy to perceive this attitude like accepting the instruction of censorship as it is as revealing the negativity of censorship like the uniformity of works; however, as these films were produced in a short time, it was just a method found for passing censorship fast in that they were films released at re-opening theaters. In other words, censorship can serve more than restrictions, and the acceptance of censorship, too, is achieved in three dimensions according to the type or purpose of the film.

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