영상 텍스트로 읽는 우리 문학

Abstract

The expressive medium of literature actively reflects the contemporary situation of the times. The oral literature expressed in voice changed into the written literature expressed with the letter. Now, the written literature is being changed into the image literature like film. I'll examine Korean literary works as image texts in this article. Firstly, I'll examine the aspect of the Pansori, one type of oral literature, being filmed. <Chun-hyang Dyeun> <Seupyeuje> are reusing successfully the audiovisual element which was once thrown away. The audiovisual element was thrown away when the oral literature became the written one. Also, the process of filming narrative and novel will be also examined in the case of <Dream> and <The Silver Stallion Will Never Come>. <Dream> is based on Cho-Shin Tale and Lee Kwang-soo's Dream. The heroes of <Dream> have many complicated sides compared with those of the original tale and the novel. This movie shows the process in which a hero confronts the shadow of the desire latent in his inside and finally reveals the process in which the hero fulfills his own self. <The Silver Stallion Will Never Come> was successfully filmed from the original novel which borrows its motive from the General Tale. And the subject of original narrative was interpreted seriously. Lastly, I'll examine the aspect in which poems are filmed. Films based on poems are rarer than films based on novels. When dramatizing a poem to a film, the polysemous and implicative quality of the poem should be abandoned. On the other hand, when a ambiguous poem becomes a film, it acquires the clarity as a narrative. Films like <301 302> and <We Must Go To Apgujung-Dong on Windy Days> that are based on poems appealed so intimately to the mass. However, in the film like <The Letter>, the original meaning of the poem was misinterpreted. When dramatizing the literary work into film, the prudent care should be taken not to damage the meaning of the original work. Studies on the intertextuality of literature and movie aim at letting the reader enjoy literature more in the times of image. The activation of image literary researches does not mean the atrophy of letter literary researches. It is not meant for the opposition, but meant for co-existence and expansion. The image literature should be seen as widening the scope of our literary territory and must be researched continuously.