『메뚜기의 날』(The Day of the Locust)과 미국의 문화 산업

• 영문명: The Day of the Locust and American culture industry
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 강석진(Sukjun Kang)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제93호, 39~56쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.12.30

영문 초록

Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust offers the most insightful critiques of spectacles of capitalism during the thirties His novel fully demonstrates the emergence of mass man in a consumer society, his spectacles show us the universal equality of cultural products in the age of mechanical reproduction His characters are frequently not proper humans but mechanical toys of helpless automatons Mass production ultimately results in the grotesque sameness and the loss of individuality The Day of the Locust, in this context, shares the vision of Walter Bengamin's works which cover a sustained analysis of mass culture West's novel can be sharply contrasted to John Schlesinger's 1975 film Instead of attacking the process of mass production, Schlesinger replicates of restores conventions of Hollywood culture industry Westian powerful critique of mass culture and sign of cultural despair are largely absent in the screen Instead a series of spectacles meet the desire of the modern spectators the bloody cockfights, the collapse of the stage, and a date with a sexy girl beside a fountain Unlike West's work, characters are frequently finalized by the Hollywood code and thus fail to resist authoritarian powers Schlesinger's screen adaptation provides a case study of Hollywood industry's capacity to take advantage of subversive counternarratives

키워드

문화 산업 매스맨 소비 사회 내러티브 스펙터클 탈정치화 기계적 재생산 전시 culture industry mass man narrative spectacle consumer society depoliticization mechanical reproduction exhibition