카메라-눈과 소비주의 시대의 미학 = Camera-Eye and Aesthetics in the Age of Consumerism: On the Issue of Gaze in American Beauty

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This essay aims to discuss how the camera-eye operates in the visual culture by focusing on the notions such as voyeurism, surveillance and dataveillance. W ith the discussion of the suturing and de-suturing functions
of the camera-eye, it also aims to argue how the camera-eye can reappropriate or subvert the routine gaze of the ordinary life by analyzing the effect of Rick's camcorder in American Beauty. In fact, the images of
Rick's camcorder evoke the Brechtian notion of alienation effect in the sense that they reveal what is not intended to see from our ordinary life. Especially, the plastic bag scene of the film shows us "something so
profound in the simple beauty of the moment." Placed as "any-space-whatever" in the filmic narrative, this scene is open to the possibility of the pure thinking on time. It also reveals the meta-filmic possibility of presenting the singular beauty by replacing the filmmaking professionalism with an experiment of the handy cam, as Francis Coppola foretold.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 문제의 제기: 몽타주와 카메라-눈
• 카메라-눈의 두 시선: 감시와 훔쳐보기
• <아메리칸 뷰티>: 디지털 캠코더의 눈을 통한 일상적 시선의 재전유와 전복
• 플라스틱 봉지와 소비주의 시대의 미학
• 인용문헌
• 인용영화
• Abstract