최근 소설의 영화화에 대한 비판적 고찰

Abstract

As many people point out, the novel is a genre whose source of vitality always lies in hybridity. Therefore, the phenomenon itself is not an object of criticism that novles refer to films and vice versa since the middle of 1990s in Korea. The sweeping expansion of Korean film industry in recent years, however, has formed the conditions enough to bestow dominance on the films. And now we are confronted with the serious situation worrying over rather assimilating literature into the films than the productive interaction between genres. The connection which can premise differences can only give birth to creation. For that reason, above all, the productive connection between novels and films should start from the recognition of the fact that these two genres are 'different' each other. This study, under such a premise, sets the goal at reconsidering each autonomy of the novel and the films through examining both Marriage is a crazy thing, a novel of Yi Man-gyo, and its film version directed by Yu Ha. The result of this study is that the novel which never can be cinematized and the film which never can be novelized are authentic arts, getting the originality of each genre.