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A Study in the popularity of Filmic Adaptations by Kim Seung Ok

장경실 1

1건국대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This study examined the issues of popularity in Kim Seung-ok’s adaptation and their meanings. A pure novelist Kim Seung Ok worked as a screen writer from 1967 to early 1980s, and especially in 1970s changed cutural typography his adaptation for popular fictions made up wide-spread popularity to lead the audience to feel sympathy. He started working with a new novelist and new film generation in 1970s. They were composed of young directors and writers who tried to demonstrate new ways of filmmaking. Their works were within the new cultural movement called ‘youth culture’ and ‘Yong Sang Shi Dae’ in the 1970s and were influenced by the western Cinema. Kim Seung Ok contributed this new movement with the adaptations of contemporary popular novels such as “Yeong-Ja’s Golden Days(1975)”, “Women on the street (1976)”and “Woman in Winter(1977)”His works appealed to the masses by a strengthening popularity and awaken their sensitivity. Such a capacity of the popularity have been the Melodramatic features with suffering of romantic love, suffering of women and happy ending. In other words, His works can satisfy the popular’s disire,and can fill up complements that novel itself is apt to lack. Eventually his adaptation provides intertextuality which get intimate with novel for the popular. According to analysis, his melodramatic element reflected the way of representing outlook of female subjectivity or the female gender in the modern society. And to investigate Kim’s adaptations in this way is a way of understanding our society of the day and modern subject in the 1970s.

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