한국 멜로영화의 장르연구 = 관습의 반복과 변형

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Melodrama has been the most traditional and popular film genre in Korea. Melodrama had been the most popular film genre in the 1960’ sand 1970’ s. However, during the 1980’ s and the first half of 1990’ s, it had not been popular and its production had decreased significantly. From 1997, the production of melodramas had increased dramatically and it becomes popular again. Since then, melodrama films have been very successful in ticket sales and it is now the mainstream of the film production in Korea.
The purpose of this study is to analyze why melodrama reemerged as the most popular film genre again in Korea. The main issues are: why the melodramas in the late 1990’ s are extraordinarily popular?; what are the differences between the past melodramas and the recent melodramas? In order to answer these questions, we have analyzed and compared the conventions and formulas of those produced in 1960s and 1970 and that of those produced recently. The theoretical framework of this research is the genre study. According to genre study, genres have evolved themselves in interrelation with the changes in the society, the economic pressures of film industry, the intertextuality of text, and the expectations of audiences. And the film industries continuously have reproduced the successful conventions, and, as a result, the repeated conventions have become a part of genre. The genre has been continuously evolved itself. Nevertheless it has sustained stable identity.
For the study, we have analyzed the most popular seven melodramas which have been produced recently. A text analysis of narrative convention has been made up to investigate the inner evolution of melodrama genre. We have classified seven melodramas into three categories: the first is “the classical plots”, the second is “new immorality plots” which are transformed from the melodrama produced in the past, and the third is “the modem plots”.
After the classification, we have analyzed and compared the three recently produced melodrama plots with the melodrama conventions produced in the past. We found both the reproduction and the transformation of the genre conventions. On the one hand, the reproductions of the traditional melodrama conventions are; event oriented narratives, contingency, destined love, conflict of social status, a triple love affair, tragic feeling, emotional excesses, and male-dominated and female-masochistic narratives. On the other hand, the transformations are; character centered narratives, love in every day life, introvert conflict, moderate emotion, happy ending, and hybrid of other genres.
The study has concluded that the transformations of the melodrama film have reflected the change of the Korean modern society such as urbanization, improvements in women’s right, and developments of modem communication means. Furthermore, we have interpreted that transformation of conventions has been a factor to bring about the popularity of melodrama in present. However, the transformation of conventions has been superficial and stylish. And, basically, the values and themes, such as patriarchy, familism, and ideology of romantic love, which the recent made melodramas have pursued, have been the same as the melodramas did in the past.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 들어가는 말
• Ⅱ. 이론적 배경
• Ⅲ. 연구방법
• Ⅳ. 멜로영화의 하위장르들
• Ⅴ. 멜로영화 관습의 반복과 변형
• Ⅵ. 결론
• 참고 문헌
• Abstract