냉전과 근대화의 스펙터클한 유람 그리고 지워진 폭력의 민낯-영화 <팔도강산> 시리즈를 중심으로-

Abstract

This study set out to provide new analyses of the Paldogangsan series, which was produced and played from the middle and late 1960s to the early 1970s, in the aspects of the awareness of the Cold War and popularity. Reflecting popularity and the awareness of the Cold War, this movie series showed an ideological world that was built perfectly and thus helped the audience estimate the excluded traces of violence in a paradoxical manner. The study first symbolized the areas of tradition and history reproduced in the movies as the exclusive property of the old generation represented by the old couples and presented the achievements of modernization as the exclusive possession of the new generation, thus checking the situation in which the values of the old generation were pushed behind the achievements of modernization. The series also introduced North Korea as the land that South Korea should conquer, instilling South Korea’s powerful ideology of modernization and anti-communism into the people that the regime tried to produce and establishing them as the subject of unification. Secondly, this series reproduced the entire territory of the nation as the exhibition venue of industrialization, showing the aspect of deleting labor itself. Since the industrial fields were perfectly structured to show the spectacles of modernization, even the workers reproduced in the movies held their meanings only as important elements of spectacles in modernization. Finally, the series was produced to establish the Cold War system and promote modernization through the success stories of people. By reproducing the tears of losers that did not make it actively, it revealed its problems such as talking about their frustration experiences through the salvation of heroic characters in the movies, turning its back on the problems with the social structure of the times, and making success and frustration private in individuals’ efforts and heroic salvation.