재구성된 실화와 로컬화된 섹스－1970년대 여성 포로수용소를 다룬 영화들－

Abstract

This article discusses about the characteristics of anti- communist films in the late 1970s, which gave shape to women in concentration camps, focusing on the movies titled A Record of Love and Death(1978) and Who Knows This Pain?(1979. These movies are revealing the political and cultural attributes of the time with regard to following the global trend dubbed the popularity of movies about women in prison along with the features of an anti-communist material about a true story that had been popular since the late 1960s. On top of this, there is a common point in that both movies got support from the military and were selected as a film recommended by the Ministry of Culture and Information. Especially, two movies are covering the main keywords of Korean movies in the 1970s while encompassing the subject matters such as anti-communism and sex, confinement and violence with touting the original work as a true story. Considering these points, this study analyzes how two movies are playing a variation on the journalism articles of having been spread under the name of “true story” in those days along with the process of having been ‘notarized’ by the nation amid the atmosphere of supporting the anti-communist materials. Also, there is a discussion about how the image and narrative are being made “Korean style” in the movies regarding women in prison that emphasized sexuality in a female prisoner, and about which influence the topic called anti-communism and true story had upon describing sexuality in the movies. This will be led to the work of grasping how B －films, which failed to produce a result critically and successfully in the 1970s, are reflecting the characteristics of the times, and of discovering the research historical value of women’s prison camp movies as the output created by the support base dubbed anti-communism and public competition system or by the desire to follow constraints and global trends.