문예영화 <안개>의 근대적 주체성 비판

• 영문명: Critical Inquiries into Modern Subjectivity in Mist: Focusing on the Medium Transformation and the Intervention of Critical Gaze
• 발행기관: 한국영화학회
• 저자명: 김소연
• 간행물 정보: 『영화연구』제43호, 55~79쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 예술체육 > 예술일반
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.03.31

영문 초록

Kim, Soo-yong’s literary film Mist(1967), adapting Kim, Seung-Ok’s novel The Foggy Town, is a rare case dealing with the contemporariness in the 60’sKorean urban society unlike his other literary films whose backdrops used to be some old rural towns in some old days.In that sense, this film should be considered as a good example of exposing the filmmaker’s perspective on the modernity and the modern subjectivity in depth and width. On condition that this film is based on the original novel and the adapter is the novelist himself, the most interesting and intriguing about this film is how the ‘reflexivity’ of the novel, which had been shared with most modernist novels in the 60’s in terms of the protagonists’ critical(-only) attitude against the modern life, was represented, or reconsidered. The point is that Mist was not just a copy of The Foggy Town but rather a critical revision of it and this revision was achieved mainly by the intervention of the critical gaze of the camera, or the filmmaker, namely, in very filmic ways. This achievement amounts to the ‘supplement’ in Derrida’s terms since the original ending of annihilating the short deviate experiences in Mujin, a pseudo-modern town, and returning to the modern world was undermined by some changes in narrative details and some filmic devices of looking at the protagonist: for example, the changed timing of the protagonist’s voice-over statement of “let’s be positive about Mujin just this once” and the suspicious framing in oblique angle of ending shots etc. In short, the film succeeded in radicalizing the novel's limited criticism against the project of modernity in the 60's Korea and the male (bourgeois) intellectual's cooperation.

목차

1. 들어가며

2. 1960년대 한국적 근대의 역사적 규정성

3. 〈무진기행〉: 총체적 현실 인식이 결여된 성찰의 서사

4. 〈안개〉: 성찰적 지식인을 재성찰하는 카메라의 응시

5. 〈안개〉: 주체의 분열, 혹은 근대의 분열

6. 나가며

키워드

Literary Film media transformation modernity modern subjectivity reflexivity critical gaze