Journal of Digital Convergence (디지털융복합연구)

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The Genre Variations of Female Film Noir: Focusing on the Film

여성 느와르의 장르적 변주: 영화 <미옥>을 중심으로

  • 이희승 (동명대학교 미디어커뮤니케이션학과)
  • Received : 2020.03.20
  • Accepted : 2020.06.20
  • Published : 2020.06.28
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Abstract

This study attempts to analyze by the gender political point of view of the recent film, 'A Special Lady', focusing on the case of setting up women as the main characters in the 2000s Korean film noir genre. Concretely, this study conducted a narrative analysis focusing on the three elements of genre film, the identity of the characters and their family relationships, and the Oedipal trajectory. The film, 'A Special Lady', has the narrative about the maternal love assigned to female protagonist, and that emphasizes male pure love. And the film shows the flashbacks concerning to motherhood that prove the biological identity of the female protagonist, and signs that weaken the castration fear resulting from male voyeurism. Further, the film depicts the fragmentation of identity and the cracking of family relationships, revealing the confusion of gender identity and the narrative degeneration into family melodrama. Meanwhile, the film fails to complete the feminine Oedipal trajectory by reducing the female character's motherhood to a biological one instead of expanding it into an alternative quality embracing the other. These findings suggest that the korean gangster is closely related to gender politics and is not completely out of gender bias.

본 연구는 전통적으로 여성혐오적인 장르인 한국형 느와르 장르에서 2000년대 들어 여성을 주인공으로 설정하는 사례가 목도되는 데 주목하여 최근작인 영화 <미옥>에 대한 젠더 정치학적 관점의 분석을 시도했다. 구체적으로 장르적 삼요소, 등장인물의 정체성과 가족 관계, 오이디푸스 궤적의 문제를 중심으로 내러티브 분석을 진행했다. 영화 <미옥>은 여성 주인공에게 모성애를 기입하고 남성의 순애보를 강조하는 내러티브, 여성 주인공의 생물학적 정체성을 증거하는 모성에 관한 플래시백, 남성적 관음증에 따른 거세공포를 약화하는 기호 등을 담보한다. 그리고 정체성의 분열과 가족 관계의 균열을 묘사하며 젠더 정체성의 혼란과 가족 멜로물로의 내러티브적 변질이 나타난다. 한편 영화가 여성 주인공의 모성을 타자를 품는 대안적인 특질로 확장하는 대신 생물학적인 것으로 환원하면서 여성적 오이디푸스 궤적의 완수에 실패하게 한다. 이러한 연구결과를 통해 조폭 느와르라는 장르가 젠더 정치학과 긴밀한 연관을 맺고 있으며 젠더 편향에서 온전히 벗어나지 못하고 있음을 고찰할 수 있었다.

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