Vertical memory, horizontal nostalgia : 웹툰과 영화에서 미장아빔의 방향전환

Abstract

This paper explores that the direction change of mise-en-abyme in webtoon and cinema reflects audiences's mind and influences the structure of their feeling in terms of Georg Simmel's Urban Theory and Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Projects. The paper analyses the direction change of mise-en-abyme from horizontal to vertical direction in Christopher Nolan's Inception and Kang Full's webtoon Lamp Shop. Originally, mise-en-abyme which is a French term refers to "placed into abyss". It also means "a story-within-a story" or "a drama-within-a drama". In short, it shows a text within a text like a reduplication of images or concepts. Mise-en-abyme in films occurs a frame-within-a-frame horizontally, so it exaggerates one point perspective of the Renaissance. The visual experience of standing between two mirrors shows an infinite reproduction of one's image. In Nolan's Interception, horizontal mise-en-abyme describes nostalgia for a field, a family, a home expressing children in the yard. However,vertical mise-en-abyme illustrates memorial images for metropolitan within an unconscious abyss. The former means eros in Cobb's life, the latter refers to his wife Mal's thanatos. The motif of a dream-within-a dream repeats continuously. Although the film moves to a deep mise-en-abyme, only the awaken person in a dream can recognize the reality. The webtoon Lamp Shop makes it possible to discuss another mise-en-abyme in terms of viewing through the narrative as well as the physical movement of the fingers. Scrolling the mouse and watching the webtoon involve vertical mise-en-abyme. A mouse with hand-eye shows the relation of visuality and sense of though.