최근 가족 멜로영화의 남성적 글쓰기와 여성의 과잉/과소

Abstract

This study attempts to investigate crisis symptoms which Confucian patriarchy, which had been the core of Korean tradition, confronted during accelerated upheaval of Korean politics, economy, and culture. For this purpose, family melo-dramas, “Marathon” and “Crying Fist” were selected for text analysis. The analysis revealed that the each drama set up a patriarch in crisis, and then eliminated or marginalized him from the narrative as a token of symbolic punishment due to his lack of masculinity. Instead, the dramas set up other male characters who could replace or succeed the patriarch, and constructed the narrative of reestablishment of paternity and of recovery of male identity for which they struggled. This connotes the narrative desire to reproduce male-centered history beyond the scope of simply deifying individuals, and to reconstruct masculine national identity through another form of male writing. In this process, females were not suggested as an alternative to the identity of family or Korean society, but were marginalized from the narrative when they did not play her part as a supporter of the patriarch. Even when playing a good supporter role, the females were represented with an image of an pathologized woman.