This research has been started from its value as text that can even read the age of 1960s time period by investigating enlightenment film even deeper.
I mostly looked up the modernity characteristic of enlightenment film of 1960. In 1960, most debate...
This research has been started from its value as text that can even read the age of 1960s time period by investigating enlightenment film even deeper.
I mostly looked up the modernity characteristic of enlightenment film of 1960. In 1960, most debates of movies are about 'modernization'. Age of 1960 was age of modernization by governmental project, and not only in part of film but also in the other several parts, there were tries of modernization. It was necessary to participating to the intellects and there were also polarizations among them.
It was confined that enlightenment movies were not the deviation from traditional lines to film directors who are in chare of managing citizens' modernities. Enlightenment film were on the extension line of author doctrine of Korean film directors, and were considered as tool of improving rural communities which are isolated from city, the main region of modernization. We can find both meanings of modernization from 1960s' rural enlightenment film.
General plots of 1960s' enlightenment movies were rebuilding country that had been ruined from 6.25 war and Japanese ruling period. If the country meant sorrow and scars from wars in 1950s, it was overcoming and rebuilding that country with civil wills and enthusiasms in 1960s. Therefore, many movies which has hard reality of rural community as their background in 1960s.
Main character of 1960s' rural enlightenment film was a woman. Also their role was not only just assisting men but also standing on the same status as that of men. In each film, these kind of roles of women can be easily seen.
Also there were enlightenment film which use children as subject material in 1960s. These kind of film have story lines of comparing adults' corrupted mind and children's innocent mind, and finally admiring children's innocent mind. Role of teachers and ability of education which fulfills children's hurted hearts from adults' unconcerns is well appeared in the film.
It was possible to find the try of breaking feudal fund system in the film. Rural residents were often forced to marry of convenience, betray the friends, and even die as starved. Usurers always took the role of villains and obstacles to modernization. The mains of modernization try to break these kind of fund system and, by changing people's consciousness, give the hope to rural community.
Enlightenment ideologists considered the people who live in only God's will as fools and included them in the target of modernization. People who had relied upon God should have decide whether keep living in God's will and go to the way of destruction or defend their selves in the way of knowledge and objective intelligence. In this period, Korean christianity had big role. It can be proved in the film.
When harbingers went to rural community for enlightenment, there were many assistances with them. It requires not only money, but also other labor forces in improving the condition of rural community.
One of the biggest factor of enlightenment film was modernity. Through the enlightenment film, the film can even offered the place for sharing solutions for social problems, not only just offering funnies.
Enlightenment film that especially made in 1960s when the modernization was on progress mostly and political power of president Park Jung-Hee was moved to citizens from military, are good model texts for looking up historical happens, and therefore it is worthy to find out the remains of history of 1960s modernization with these enlightenment film.