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@article{ART002112777},
author={PARK MIRAN},
title={Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2016},
volume={73},
number={2},
pages={83-122},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.83}

TY - JOUR
AU - PARK MIRAN
TI - Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2016
VL - 73
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 83
EP - 122
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This paper aims to analyze how, in the 1960’s thriller movies The Devils Stairway (1964) and The Tiger Moth (1965), the instability of the society reveals itself while the audience figures out the narrative of crime, and how this instability is recognized by the audience. In The Devils Stairway and The Tiger Moth, the crimes involve in murdering people who are obstacles to making a new family. The crimes are concealed in the inside of the family, and the desire to make a new family is frustrated by the interference of the past. The Devil’s Stairway shows the process in which a sense of internal instability is gradually transferred to internal uncertainty that he can’t believe in himself from uncertainty about the objective outside world. Thrills and suspense formed by disguise of death show the process in which anxiety is not only to simply position in the interior of the society and family but irrupted into inner side. Therefore it is structured perception of two specters that is anxiety for the society and family and anxiety for his own mind. The Tiger Moth makes the audience recognize the ambiguity about identity of others through a person to disguise his identity. Figurative language a character uses is, has the potential to hold back the truth as a language to hide at the same time reveal himself. This ambiguity about identity has intensified the sense of fear that the threat from behind by acquaintances. The ambiguity identity of the character and being identified are perceived as the anxiety of feeling that his suppressed desires come from unresolved the past is latent very closely. The fact that 1960’s thriller film has been emerged as a cultural phenomenon means thrilling experience can present a new perspective and a sense for the everyday life of the audience. The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth show the sense of anxiety which is inherent in our home and every mind. This works invite audience participation to thrilling experience come from disguised identity, make crack a demand for stability that is a reconstruction of family and a reconstruction of nation. Also this works make the audience perception anxiety about 1960’s everyday life. In the 1960’s thriller movies, the sense of anxiety that can’t converge upon stable system smoothly has been formed in the ally with the audience.
KW - thrillar film;The Devil’s Stairway;The Tiger Moth;disguised identity;anxiety;instability of society;The discourse on modernization in the 1960s
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.83
ER -

PARK MIRAN. (2016). Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 73(2), 83-122.

PARK MIRAN. 2016, "Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.73, no.2 pp.83-122. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.83

PARK MIRAN "Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 73.2 pp.83-122 (2016) : 83.

PARK MIRAN. Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth. 2016; 73(2), 83-122. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.83

PARK MIRAN. "Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 73, no.2 (2016) : 83-122.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.83

PARK MIRAN. Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 73(2), 83-122. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.83

PARK MIRAN. Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2016; 73(2) 83-122. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.83

PARK MIRAN. Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth. 2016; 73(2), 83-122. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.83

PARK MIRAN. "Disguised Identity and Perception of Anxiety in Films of the 1960’s — focucing on The Devil’s Stairway and The Tiger Moth" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 73, no.2 (2016) : 83-122.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.83