Recently many studies of literature education have focused on the interests of students and they are considered to be helpful to students' lives. Image and written media have their own individuality and characteristics that result in the genre differe...
Recently many studies of literature education have focused on the interests of students and they are considered to be helpful to students' lives. Image and written media have their own individuality and characteristics that result in the genre differences between novels and movies. But at the same time the two media are in mutually complementary relationships strongly affecting each other. While movies adopt the narrative structure of novels, novels introduce the movies' imagination and grammar as a new technique. When a movie is made based on a novel, the close relationships between novels and movies can provide a good foundation for using movies in novel instruction.
It appears that things are different from the past even in literature, a field of culture. With the written media formerly responsible for many areas being replaced by image media, a new change should take place in traditional literature education. One of the changing genres, film, can be said to play the biggest role in the students' lives. Thus this study investigated the potential of film as an educational medium.
This study presents effective teaching/studying methods with the novel Seopyeonje written by Lee Cheong Jun and the application of its image transfiguration.
After comparing and analyzing the changing patterns from the novel to the movie, the following methods of novel instruction are suggested: first, the mutual resemblance between the two in story and plot will help the students understand the story more easily and grasp how the plot will develop. They will also see what kind of meaning the temporal and spatial elements give to the work in the narrative of the novel and the movie. When the parts where the background of the novel are described are turned into mise -en-sen the students are focusing on the description of setting. Through this method, students are able to grasp the effect of each scene that affects the theme and emotions of the whole story.
The second method is 'montage': how a character's psychological description changes in appearance by montage. Montage integrates objective situations in dialectical. Through this method, students are able to grasp the atmosphere of a scene that describes character's psychological changes and also the theme.
The third aspect of the research is how the point of view changes between the novel and movie. A specific point of view in literature changes to a compound point of view in a movie, which can make it more effective to understand the story.
The fourth aspect of the research is how the plot of the novel is expressed in the movie through the time-space structure. The time-space structure on the screen provides a greater probability to understand the plot of the novel.
Novels and movies have many things in common because they are made with author's imagination and lead the readers' interests to the specific point. If students learned novels through movies, they might receive novel education more intimately. It will be so successful because image media has visual effects that can make learning more fun. Furthermore, to compare and appreciate the two types of media provides readers with various emotions that students can use to get a deeper appreciation of both arts.
I have applied three basic components of novel education: characters, events, and setting, to novel education with movies.
Novel education using movies has many beneficial effects and great potential for the teaching/studying methods for reading novels.