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A Study on the Intention and Effect of Media Conversion: Focused on “The Three Friends” and “The Song of a Young Man”

Youngae Kim 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

Before and after the late 1920s, silent films were the most advanced medium for colonial enjoyment of culture. At this time, film novels emerged as a means to overcome the limitations of silent films. The film novels were popular before and after the 1930s and they could be divided into ones that have the characteristics of scenarios for film production and adaptation of the contents of movies already screened. Park Lu-weol’s film novels mostly correspond to the latter. Park’s works were distinctive in that he attempted to adapt to new elements by not only copying or reproducing the narrative of the original film. In particular, this distinction stands out in the process of adapting two films directed by Kim Young-hwan to two film novels in 1930. This paper intends to analyze film and movie novels “The three friends” and “The song of a young man” from the perspective of media conversion. Park Lu-weol adapted two films by Kim Young-hwan into film novel and published a book of the same name in the Youngchang publisher in 1930. The film novels, “The three friends” and “The song of a young man” were texts that symbolize the characteristics of the genre of film novel. In the process of adapting the narrative of the original film, it was characteristic in that it showed a variation of the way of adding elements and motifs different from the original. Film novel usually inherit or abbreviate the narrative of the film, but not in the case of “The three friends” and “The song of a young man”. The purpose of this paper is to examine the intertextual characteristics of “The three friends” and “The song of a young man” and the intention and effect of media conversion, focusing on the relationship between film author and director Kim Young-hwan and film novelist Park Lu-weol.

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