60년대 한국영화에 나타나는 空間의 근대성 연구 －이만희감독 영화를 중심으로－

Abstract

Korea in the 60’s had to undergo a lot of trials and errors with their body in the situation of modernization. Director Lee Man-hee played variation differently from the other directors in this phenomenon, and built up his own world of film. Although the 60’s was the era when modernism movies were performed internationally, it was the time when Korean movies were blocked from the world movies, and it would not be too much to say that the way of talking through “space and character” shown in the films of Director Lee were totally made by his agony on his art works. He was a director who was excellent in approaching familiar things unfamiliarly. The space of Seoul Station at that time was a space of hub, which had a symbolic meaning of modernity, and which is a dangerous and alluring space and a space of opportunity and loss. This ambivalent feature may be the self-portrait of modernization of Korean society in the 60’s. Director Lee interpreted the situation of the times that this spaciality had and expressed it in his films consistently by emphasizing vertical formativeness or through uncomfortable placement. Director Lee is testing themes through the experiment of various space organization regarding modernization of capitalism which he could not help accepting in his films.