스펙터클로서의 연예인의 죽음

• 영문명: An Entertainer's Death as a Spectacle
• 발행기관: 서강대학교 생명문화연구소
• 저자명: 이명원(Lee, Myoung-Won)
• 간행물 정보: 『생명연구』제14집, 111~134쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.11.30

영문 초록

Today entertainer's death or suicide is a spectacle and commercial ritual by mass media. What is an identity of entertainer? Entertainer is a person who contemporary totem of mass. Original totem was a symbol of collective worship and tribal's unification. But today entertainer is a pseudo hero, totem, and spectacle image. An worship of entertainer by the mass is not entertainer's inner personality but media image. Entertainer's death(suicide) is the event of identity restoration as an individual. Simultaneously it is an ironical beginning of symbolic violence by the mass. The broadcasting of entertainer's death by mass media is not truly ritual mourning but the last commercial event. In fact, it is a squandering of entertainer's residual resources. Consequently the mourning by mass media and the mass is a commercial mechanism of forgetfulness.

키워드

spectacle media mourning tribal totem commercial mechanism entertainer