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@article{ART002563593},
author={Kyoung-Lae kang},
title={The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019)},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2020},
volume={77},
number={1},
pages={285-320},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.285}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kyoung-Lae kang
TI - The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019)
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2020
VL - 77
IS - 1
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 285
EP - 320
SN - 1598-3021
AB - The recent Korean TV drama Signal stages two contemporary policemen who investigate several unresolved crime cases that actually took place in Korea during the 1990s. In contrast to the actual unresolved murders, Signal succeeds in resolving the crimes, particularly through the male protagonist’s accidental connection with another policeman who lives in the past temporality of the 1990s — a fictional (and even surrealistic) encounter between the present and the past that makes it possible to arrest the criminal and then revise cultural memories of corrupted pasts. This paper examines this new tendency in Korean cultural narrative, especially as embedded in two TV dramas. In particular, I borrow Thomas Elsaesser’s concept of a “mind-game film”, which denotes a narrative that revolves around psychologically unstable figures, such as those who suffer from schizophrenia, amnesia, or dementia, thereby providing a temporally reversed and convoluted narrative. In so doing, I address how this new mode of narrative extends cultural memory discourse and revises contemporary spectators’ perceptions of temporality in Korea.
KW - Mind-game Narrative;Digital Media Ecology;Time-travel Narrative;Thomas Elsaesser;Cultural Memory
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.285
ER -

Kyoung-Lae kang. (2020). The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019). Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 77(1), 285-320.

Kyoung-Lae kang. 2020, "The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019)", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.77, no.1 pp.285-320. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.285

Kyoung-Lae kang "The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019)" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 77.1 pp.285-320 (2020) : 285.

Kyoung-Lae kang. The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019). 2020; 77(1), 285-320. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.285

Kyoung-Lae kang. "The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019)" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 77, no.1 (2020) : 285-320.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.285

Kyoung-Lae kang. The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019). Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 77(1), 285-320. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.285

Kyoung-Lae kang. The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019). Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2020; 77(1) 285-320. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.285

Kyoung-Lae kang. The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019). 2020; 77(1), 285-320. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.285

Kyoung-Lae kang. "The Arrival of Mind-Game Narrative and New Tendency in Narrativizing Cultural Memory: Considering Contemporary Korean TV Dramas, Signal (tvN, 2016) and The Light in Your Eyes (JTBC, 2019)" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 77, no.1 (2020) : 285-320.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.285