‘맛’ 너머의 삶 ― 중국 음식 다큐멘터리 <風味人間> 시리즈의 복합적 정동 읽기

Abstract

This paper discusses how the "Once Upon a Bite" series creatively handles reality and intervenes in the world. The "Once Upon a Bite" series is quite rhetorical and carries a clear message. Documentary producers must give the audience a feeling of "definitely true" and to this end, they use various filming techniques, storytelling, and narrative strategies. This documentary reshapes and politicizes the emotional events that make up our daily lives, including senses, emotions, stories of various people, food, and nature. The audience feels that they are living in a world reproduced by a documentary. People enjoy a peaceful daily life, and there is no conflict in the episode, or even if there is adversity, it is all in the past. These messages are constantly exposed in the documentary and form a 'huge affect' that sinks the audience into them. Moreover, the message of the "Once Upon a Bite" series was relatively easily supplemented by metaphorical narration that appeared throughout the work. The propaganda that the documentary says "Life goes on" secretly justified everything. If something surrounds me after watching a documentary, whether there is a feeling or not, whether I agree with that or not, it is a problematic-complex affect. This work was expected that the audience (if not) would reactively readjust the affect and enter ‘we―China’.