『폴링 다운』(Falling Down)과 분노한 백인 남성의 로스앤젤레스 오디세이

• 영문명: Falling Down and an Angry White Male's Odyssey across Los Angeles
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 이찬행(Chan haeng Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제46집 2호, 131~155쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.09.30

영문 초록

This essay examines Joel Schumacher's controversial film Falling Down (1993) which presents an angry white male's odyssey across Los Angeles. By portraying whites as a minority group in Los Angeles, this film stimulated whites' cultural and racial imagination in the early 1990s. In the first part, this essay pays attention to cinematic mechanisms in which the film viewers are induced to identify themselves with D-FENS (Michael Douglas), the main character in the film. Falling Down successfully achieved this identification by telling everyday experiences such as traffic-clogged freeways in urban life. In the second part, this essay employs the idea of "deterritorialization," which was elaborated by Deleuze and Guattari in their collaboration A Thousand Plateaus, to understand the reason why the white male got angry. By viewing Los Angeles in extreme long shot, this essay argues that D-FENS was alienated in a new urban landscape created by a series of urban restructuring in the 1970s and 1980s. In the last part, this essay employs Deleuze and Guattari's idea of "reterritorialization" to maintain that D-FENS tried to turn Los Angeles back to the year of 1965 which symbolizes a better time for whites.

목차

Ⅰ. 페이드 인

Ⅱ. 클로즈업 샷: 마이클 "조 노멀(Joe Normal)" 더글라스

Ⅲ. 익스트림 롱샷: "천국보다 낯선" 로스앤젤레스 탈영토화

Ⅳ. 미디엄 롱샷: 백인 남성의 분노와 로스앤젤레스 재영토화

Ⅴ. 페이드 아웃

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

『폴링 다운』 분노한 백인 남성 비백인 이민자들 탈영토화 재영토화 Falling Down Angry White Male Non-White Immigrants Deterritorialization Reterritorialization