만주 역사극영화와 만주기억의 변화

Abstract

This article analyzes the current status of Manchurian historical drama films in three periods. Based on this, we examined what Manchurian memory is in the movies and how it relates to social memory, Manchurian memory as collective memory. Manchurian historical dramas began in 1960 and continued until 2019. The nationalist sentiment unleashed by the April 19 Revolution continued to be used in the modernization strategy of the Park Chung－hee government. This is why Manchurian historical dramas began and continued. The films were able to survive without a spectacular narrative because they used Manchurian memory, which remained an individualistic collective memory, as the inner basis for their cinematic narratives. Manchu historical drama films self－destructed in the 1970s when they became intermingled with Hong Kong cinema and their remaining identity became even thinner. Moreover, the cinematic representation of Manchurian memory had little impact on Manchurian memory as a collective memory formed in the mid－to－late 1960s. As this memory became more established in the 1970s, the gap between it and the cinematic representation of Manchuria became more apparent. This is part of the reason for the self－destruction of Manchurian historical dramas. In the 1990s, with the changing political and economic climate in South Korea and the dissolution of the Cold War, Manchurian historical dramas began to face new challenges. Two films produced in the 21st century, both of which were successful at the box office, expanded Manchurian memory by presenting a more colorful and flexible version of Manchuria, or by forcing an internal readjustment of Manchurian memory as a collective memory.