1930년대 대중문화 속의 ‘춘향전’의 모던화 양상과 그 의미-<만화 모던 춘향전>을 중심으로

Abstract

Cartoon Morden Ch’un-Hyang Jeon is a ‘Manmoon-Cartoon’ that was published serially in the 第一線 since November of 1932. It is one of the ‘Ch’un-hyang’ that was adjoined with the cultural code Modern in the 1930s. The Modern culture of the 1930s is the cutting end urban culture. On the contrary, Ch’un-Hyang Jeon was a story of the unsophisticated farmers. Thus the introduction of Modern Ch’un-Hyang Jeon is a very unconventional case. However, Ch’un-hyang Jeon was very popular amongst the various genres in the popular culture that focuses the 20th century city as its spending space. Ch’un-Hyang Jeon was continually remade in the modern city culture in various forms such as Pansori, pop songs, comedies, movies, and plays. The connection of the traditional culture ‘Ch’un-hyang’ and the modern culture was not a projecting event that took place abruptly. Instead, it took place in the general flow of the 20th century’s popular culture. The modernization of the 1930s’ Ch’un-hyang is created by adequately applying the modern customs based on the basic narration of the Ch’un-hyang text of the Okjunghwa series and by creating new scenes. As a result, Ch’un-hyang and Mong-leong of 1930s drink beer and were born as a modern girl and modern boy who sing serenades. Furthermore, the tendencies of the modern culture of the 1930s filled with the sentiments of ‘Ero Gro Nonsense’ are sufficiently reflected in the Cartoon Morden Ch’un-Hyang Jeon. The visual image of the modern girl Ch’un-hyang stimulates an erotic sensation while Byeon-hak-do who is filled with excessive sexual greediness brings about a Gro sensation. Various nonsense images are found in various parts of the piece such as Mong-leong who care-freely squeezes his pimples or the setting where lovesickness virus infiltrates a person’s body to cause the illness. In such a manner, the modern cartoon Ch’un-Hyang Jeon is a new version of Ch’un-Hyang Jeon where the modern culture and the traditional text come hand in hand to provide an coexistence of high-end culture with a traditional culture.