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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2021.19.5.375

The Social Dilemma of Chinese Village Community: Focusing on the Film  

Sun, Ming-Yue (Department of Media Communication & Advertising, Tongmyong University)
Lee, Hee-Seung (Department of Media Communication, Tongmyong University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.19, no.5, 2021 , pp. 375-381 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aimed to examine the dilemma of rural China under rapid urbanization process after economic reform, by paying attention to the problem of the order of village community and the expression of individual desires depicted in the film with a rural background. To this end, the narrative analysis, which is suitable for exploring the story structure and expression style of the text, was conducted to examine the community order and ethics, patriarchy and paternity, and the expression of desires of subject. In the film, closed space and villagers, who are disciplined by community customs, local culture, and formality of the rule of manners, are depicted. The film is covered in a form of mystery movie dealing with the deaths of members of the village community. However, the film talks about the rise of the Imaginary desire of subject against the symbolic rules of community order and ethics through the puzzle pieces story according to the perspectives of the characters. In conclusion, through the narrative analysis, it was possible to examine the implications of weakened communal discipline and paternity of the countryside by the rapid urbanization of China, and implications of the lethargy and neurosis of the subjects.
Keywords
Xin Yukun; The Coffin in the Mountain; Chinese cinema; Community; Desire; Narrative analysis; Psychoanalysis;
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