전후 시기 동아시아 매체서사의 로컬리티― 한중일 삼국 영화에서의 중국 고전서사 <백사전(白蛇傳)> 수용을 중심으로

Abstract

After World War II, each of the East Asian countries focused on the construction of a nation-state that conforms to the new world order. Especially, reconstruction of social order and establishment of national identity were the most important problems to be solved. In East Asia during the 1950s～1960s, as the most modern media and ‘narrative of dreams’, the film portrays the image of an ideal nation-state based on a new world order In response to this collective goal. As a kinds of ‘a love story of betweent different species(between human being and not human being)’, the Chinese classical narrative ‘Bai-she-zhuan’ depicts the struggle for relationship to settle in the human world and paradoxically demonstrates the ‘conditions of human being’ that the community pursues and enforces through the process. This paper at first analyzes the media narrative of the Japanese movie <The Legend of the White Serpent>, the Korean movie <Madam White Snake> and the Hong Kong movie <Madam White Snake> by semiotic methodology, and to the next tried to read the differences of the conditions of ‘nation’ that the movie depicts in each country and region, and furthermore to understand the deviation between the social order and the Individual desire in the local communities evoking the difference. As a result, it was confirmed that the ‘Bai-she-zhuan’ films of East Asian countries at the time expressed the radical change of society and unchanging human condition through the medium of metaphor and metonymy.