• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.645-652
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• 2020

시대가 변함에 따라 예술에 대한 향유의 방식과 시청자들의 욕구는 다양해지고 있으며, 기존 작품들을 시각화하여 볼 수 있는 소설의 영화화는 시대를 가로지르는 관심 받는 장르로서 자리 잡았다. 이에 본 연구는 소설의 영화화에 대해 고찰하여 향후 소설작품을 기반으로 한 영화작품들에게 시사점을 제공하기 위한 목적으로 수행되었다. 하지만 성공적인 작품이 있는 반면, 작가의 의도나 서사를 제대로 이해하지 못 한 채 영화화되게 된 작품들은 흥행에 있어 실패를 겪는다. 대표적으로 본 연구에서는 임우성 감독의 <채식주의자(2009)>를 조명하였다. 영화 작품은 소설의 중요한 내용인 '영혜의 폭력성' 그리고 영혜에게 있어 '꽃'의 의미가 무엇인지에 대해 명확한 대답을 내리지 못했다. 이러한 점으로 인해 영화 속 영혜는 맹목적인 예술적 욕망을 추구하는 폭력의 희생자로서만 그려지고 있었으며, 오히려 선정적인 요소만 부각되었다. 이에, 향후 소설의 영화화에 있어서 영화의 매체적 특성을 살려 영화가 작품 향유의 깊이를 더할 수 있는 매개체로서 작동할 수 있게 하는 소설의 영화화가 필요함을 시사했다.

• 영미문화
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.51-78
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• 2018

To put it simply, thing theory is a study of meaningful capacities of materiality. Although T. S. Eliot regarded pathetic fallacy as the bad example of objective correlatives in his modernism poetry theory, it is clear that many objects in literary works reflect diverse human desires. Among many, Victorian sensation novels are the most distinct genre where the various paraphernalia in them indicate the distorted and exaggerated greed of the industrial revolution era. Whereas the male protagonists are usually related with the norms objects of authority such as portrait and locket, the female characters' connection with cosmetics and white dress shows their oppressed and fragile position in the patriarchal and hierarchical society. In the (post)modern society, the ambiguity of things has grown rapidly due to the increasing discrepancy between objects and things. In special, the new journalism and the psychological realism novels often reveal the post-truth phenomenon because consumerized audience depend more upon the attraction and affect than the mere evidence and facts. For the individual, according to object relations theory, these alternative facts are rather internalized into their mind as the internal object when they are motivated by the non/contact with primary caregivers in their childhood. The dominant material imagery in (post)modern fiction becomes the site of resistance because of their reconstructed and extended meaning. The object relations theory and thing theory can be effectively used to uncover the complicated meanings of desired objects by using the human-object's meaningful relations and early mental images that are secretly alive still in the present.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제35권
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• pp.97-122
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• 2014

Since the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the 1850s, many Euro-American writers tended to project their fears, contempt, desires and fantasy onto the Other race and perceived Chinese Americans in stereotypes-dangerous villains, unassimilated aliens, quiet and passive servants, sexually submissive women, or seductive prostitutes. However in the 1970s and the 1980s Euro-American novels expressed varying attitudes towards Chinese Americans. Many earlier EuroAmerican writers began portraying positive characterizations of Chinese Americans. The purpose of this study is to examine the ways one of the Euro-American writers, Howard Fast characterized Chinese Americans in The Immigrants. Part of the novel concerns a Chinese American family. Fast gave a favorable portrayal of Chinese Americans. Unlike many Euro-American novelists who dealt only with Chinese American villains and prostitutes and view Chinese Americans as the lowest class of American society, Fast, on the other hand, portrayed Chinese Americans as law-abiding and useful citizens. Thus, I will discuss how Howard Fast subverted the familiar negative characterization of Chinese Americans and placed Chinese American experiences in the context of American immigration history. Many white Americans tended to notice only the lurid and sensational aspects in the Chinese American community. They seldom regarded Chinese Americans as people with homes and families and seldom saw Chinese Americans as individuals, as human beings with feelings, pain, and joy. To counter this racist view, Fast described the family life of Chinese Americans and depicted Chinese Americans as individuals with a full range of human emotions and with strong family and cultural ties. Though Fast debunked some myths about Chinese Americans, he also reinforces other stereotypes or some stereotypical illusions about them. In conclusion, I'll demonstrate Fast's work remains an incomplete representation of Chinese Americans.