피터 잭슨의 <킹콩>: 저항의 텍스트 되어가기 = Peter Jackson’s King Kong: Becoming a Subversive Text

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King Kong films have been loved for decades by film audiences around the world. This paper discusses how Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005) becomes a subversive text, adopting a race representation which is different from Cooper and Schoedsack’s original King Kong (1933). Studies on the original King Kong have focused on the racial issue of the film, on the assumption that the film embodies anxiety in white American society. There is no doubt that cultural activities such as art, music and film are influenced by the society and the period to which they belong. Since Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American Oscar awardee, overcame strong racist objections in 1939, there have been prominent changes in the film market. Many African-American actors and actresses have been recognized in their field, and audiences see them playing even the leading roles in various films. The new century has created a new version of King Kong. Jackson’s King Kong not only showcases highly advanced cinematography, but also assumes a different attitude to the racial issue. It condemns the violence of white American society, which is followed by inversion of positions between the subject and the other. Furthermore, it subverts racist discourses which have been an important strategy to reproduce and reinforce the hegemonic order in the white dominant society. The conclusion of this paper is that Jackson’s King Kong released in 2005 is founded on the defiant attitude toward racism.

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