세속의 성녀들 -1970년대 한국 영화에 재현된 젠더 표상-

Abstract

This paper is a representation of women in two Korean films in the 1970s, Young-Ja’s Heydays and Miss O’s Apartment, Focusing on ‘Independence’ composition issues. Both films are based on novels in common Not only show the distinctive features of a film different from the novel, but also It shows that a problem of as a Lower class ‘Hostess’s Independence and self-salvation. In the movie Young-Ja’s Heydays The life of Young-Ja who is represented by flashback shows her visual image of Independent decision and self-salvation that was presented in fragments in the novel. Young-Ja try to recostitute her destroyed life through the ‘capitalized body’. However, in conclusion, she is represented as a holy being with motherhood. Thus, the film replace gender violence as the subject composition problem surrounding capital of lower class woman. On the other hand, the film Miss O’s Apartment shows compressively Oh’s self-awareness and the process of salvation. With this, this film try to seek other possibility. Oh Mi-young applicated a sexual appropriation of the image as a pure-salvational woman, In addition to through developed new self-awareness as a sex worker, finally she can possess a hybrid identity. This is a way that reveals the violence of male-dominated ideology in the 1970s. In addition to, in contemporary social problems that surrounded capital, lower class women were seeking the new independent characteristics. It was a one trial to seek the new independence.