아편전쟁 재현정치학의 계보 ― 동아시아 각국의 아편전쟁 영화를 중심으로

Abstract

The popular narratives about opium wars, which have been reproduced in the films of the East Asian countries, has been continued the history of representation almost for 70 years from the drama ‘Ahensenso’(1929) to 1997 ‘Opium war’(1997). These films have been produced on the social circumstances of three eras, including the era of imperialist war, the era of Cold War, and the era of post-Cold War, and have operated their own politics of representation, in the context of each era and each region. ‘Ahen senso’ (Japan, 1943), ‘Wan shi liu fang (aka ‘Eternity’)’ (China, 1943), ‘Lin Zexu’ (People's Republic of China, 1959), ‘Opium War’(Taiwan, 1963), ‘Apyeon jeojaeng (aka ‘Opium Wars’)’(South Korea, 1964), and ‘Yapian zhanzheng (aka ‘the Opium War’)’ (People's Republic) 1997) is the films of Opium war in each countries of East Asia. This paper explores the origin of narratives of the six films mentioned above, and then examines the meanings and the genealogy of the chain in East Asia in three historical contexts of the imperialist war, the Cold War, and the Post-Cold War.