The Fate of the Individual in the Machine Age: Film and Modernity in The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) and Hugo (2011)

• 영문명: The Fate of the Individual in the Machine Age: Film and Modernity in The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) and Hugo (2011)
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 구지혜
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』제27집 1호, 95~111쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.04.30

영문 초록

In this article, I argue that Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) and its adaptation, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011), ponder upon how one can retain one’s autonomy in a modern world increasingly associated with mechanization and standardization. Hugo Cabret and Hugo follow a typical bildung structure, charting the orphan Hugo’s incorporation into society via self-determination and effort. Both novel and film adaptation suggest that the tension between individual versus machine—or rather, a technological society that treats people as interchangeable parts, or cogs in a vast social machine—is not simply represented but also (re)produced by the film medium itself. That is, Hugo Cabret and Hugo illustrate how the antinomy between individual and machinic society in the modern age is replicated in the medium-specificity of film, i.e. the tension between filmic spectacle and film narrative.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Machinic Creativity in The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Hugo

3. The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Narrative, Editing

4. Hugo and Spectacle

5. Conclusion

키워드

The Invention of Hugo Cabret film spectacle narrative art