This thesis is a research of laughter induction in the comedy movie of North Korea as a controlled society. To understand laughter, I must put it back into its natural environment, which is society, and above all must we determine the utility of its f...
This thesis is a research of laughter induction in the comedy movie of North Korea as a controlled society. To understand laughter, I must put it back into its natural environment, which is society, and above all must we determine the utility of its function, which is social one. Therefore I need to study on many philosopher and thinker's theory. And also need to study on the overall understanding of the North Korean society and the North Korean comedy movie. But research on effective methodology needed in North Korean comedy movie analysis are not sufficient, despite the interest towards the North Korean culture and importance of North Korean movie are increasing.
The North Korean comedy movie has been playing more roles than just internal mirroring of the society. Likewise other movie, The North Korean comedy movie has most clearly revealed the ideology of its society, which is based on the strict acceptance of the classical socialist art theory, and has maintained ideological orientation as a tool of ideology. The movie of the North Korean society aims "to elucidate the justification and the truth of the socialistic ideology and doctrine, and the inevitability of the historical victory of the socialism in picture, in depth."
Therefore the North Korean comedy movie is suitable for research about laughter function in controlled society. Because exclusive control over movies has been completed by controlling not only the movie theory, but also the producing-process of them. In other words, the North Korean comedy movie has been developed as a means to instigate the party's system and to integrate the society.
The aesthetic characteristics of the North Korean comedy movie have been agreed to be more or less new-wave-like, tedious, and boorish by South Korean researchers. This kind of superficial criticism on North Korean movies are hard to be considered as a result of study, because it lacks the understanding of the particularity of the North Korean movie and the unique context in which it is produced. That is the North Korean comedy movie represents strictly controlled society, so we might be feel North Korean movie is somewhat simple and tedious.
In the text, 'A Day in the Park' is mainly dealt with contradiction and repetition. In the park, all characters cross each other every time. This situation is constantly over and over again. And each character are symbols of social prejudice which provoke laughter. Also in keeping and ruin the Social prejudice, laughter is come from.
And the case of 'Blooming Family in the Song' used a misunderstanding and an illusion. Hero Man-O doesn't like his nephew's lover Sun ok, because he regard her as play like one. In this process, he make a slip inducing laughter.
These ways are use other comedy movie, so North Korean comedy movie has somewhat catholicity and response capability. In other words, however North Korean comedy movie is made in strictly controlled society, these movies has also comic mind. Besides these two texts tacitly show a social situation of North Korea at that time. So if we know the situation of that time, we can understand North Korean comedy movie more easily.
Making a movie is not a mere artistic activity, but a social act that aims to deliver the selected message the producer intends to convey to the popular. In this regard, the question of how to view the North Korean comedy movie, calls for more synthetic perspective. Furthermore, it is also necessary to study about the question of how the North Korean people are understanding the movie, that is, audience analysis.