SP 녹음대본을 통해 본 일제강점기 무성영화

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to examine the homology between the structure of silent films and social structure during the period under Japanese imperialism focused on SP scripts for recording of Korean silent films. Through this study, we aimed to explain the influence of social structure in those days on the structure of silent films. In the silent films during the period under Japanese imperialism analyzed in study appear many women whose life is like a human sacrifice. The silent film heroines’ human‐sacrifice characteristic represented by prostitution means that although people under the Japanese rule lived in the modernized space their way of thinking was still confined in the pre‐modern frame. Besides, in many of the Korean silent films during the period, their stories end up with suicide or the expression of insanity by the heroes or heroines faced with insurmountable problems. While they lived in the open structure of modern society, the writers in those days attempted to solve problems through extreme methods such as suicide and insanity of the heroes and heroines because their way of thinking still remained in the closed structure of pre‐modern society. How to solve problems in these silent films spotlights their difference in structure from contemporary popular culture. It is because even if general human problems suggested by popular culture are not different from age to age how to solve the problems is influenced by the social structure specific to each age.