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American Myth and the Spectatorship of SF Films: Reviewing Star Wars and "Deep Space Homer" of The Simpsons (미국적 신화의 관점에서 본 SF영화의 관객성 -『스타워즈』와 『심슨가족』의 "우주비행사 호머"를 중심으로)

  • Choe, Youngjeen
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.54 no.4
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    • pp.461-482
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    • 2008
  • The science fiction was established as a typical genre of the American popular culture by the monumental releases of two series: Star Wars and Star Trek. Based on the popular science discourse, these two series have functioned as an ideological apparatus for re-appropriating Frontierism which reflects the essential values of American myth. Arguably, the SF genre owes its success mainly to the increasing popularity of science during the 1960s and 1970s, which was well represented in the space project of NASA. This power of popular science, however, tended to weaken in the 1990s as the public interest in NASA's project gradually decreased. "Deep Space Homer," an episode of The Simpson's fifth season, reflects the changing attitude of the American audience toward the new American hero created in the SF series of popular science in the previous popular culture.

A Study on Selection Efficiency Scheme in Children's Books through Subject Analysis of The Newbery Medal Winner's Books (뉴베리 수상작 주제 분석을 통한 어린이 독서자료 선정 효율화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Ji-Sug
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.63-79
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    • 2006
  • This study suggested the necessity of subject access for understanding on the contents of children's books which library would select children's books efficiently. Especially it was presented examples of efficiency on subject access analyzing Korean translation fiction of Newbery Medal Winner's books. Besides subject on the contents of books, it suggested fiction genre and gender and age of protagonist as elements which should be taken into account in process of Subject Headings development.

DAM Explosion In Fiction (댐 폭파의 반응)

  • 우리학회
    • Explosives and Blasting
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.37-39
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    • 1996
  • 본 보고는 1993년 7월 국회 건설분과위원회에서 P댐에 대해서 논의중 댐의 폭파를 설정시 어떻게 하면 또 어떻게 되는가에 대한 기술전문가의 견해에 대한 답변이다. 이는 폭파시 사력댐과 콘크리트댐 두가지를 설정한 것이다.

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The Willing Suspension of Disbelief in Animated Spokes-Characters : An Exploratory Study (애니메이션캐릭터에 대한 불신의 자발적 유예 : 탐색적 연구)

  • Kim, Woon-Han;Cho, Byung-Lyang
    • Cartoon and Animation Studies
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    • s.13
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    • pp.67-82
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    • 2008
  • This exploratory study examined the possibility that the notion, willing suspension of disbelief, can explain the processing of animated spokes-character in advertising. Willing suspension of disbelief has originated from Coleridge's explanation of poetic faith. And the term has been theoretically studied in the response of fiction in creative works, such as cinema, dramas, and advertisements, as well as literature. So far, willing suspension of disbelief has been proposed as a mediator of empathy, cognitive responses and affective responses to fiction. On these theoretical bases, a survey was conducted to 64 people with 3 advertisements to test the validity of the discriminant function. Findings of discriminant function analysis are as follows: First, the variable of willing suspension of disbelief well discriminated between the willing group and the non-willing group. Secondly, the Intensity of willing suspension of disbelief showed statistically significant difference between the willing group and the non-willing group. Thus, according to these results, it is proposed that the effects of the willing suspension of disbelief can be examined as a mediator of the response of fiction in further substantial studios.

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The Role of the Consciousness of Time in the TV Communication (TV 커뮤니케이션에서 시간의식의 역할)

  • Lee, Won
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.46
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    • pp.420-448
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    • 2009
  • This paper aims at advancing the understanding of human communication by reflecting the role of the consciousness of time in television communication. As the past, the present and the future are not independent realities, but co-exist in the human consciousness, the 'experience' and the 'expectation' are used as two essential conceptual tools which explain the mechanism of operation of the consciousness of time. The man anticipates the future based on the experience updated in the present, and chooses a present action and feels an emotion according to the expectation. The consciousness of time is extended to the symbolic instrument of time and the dominant vision of the world in the process of the socialization. The role of the consciousness of time in television communication is analyzed in both genres of information and fiction based on the media characteristics of television. The information and the fiction genres oppose to each other according to their relationships to the reality, but it turned out that their effects of communication such as enjoyment and novelty depends in common on the way of using the televiewer's consciousness of time.

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A Study on Genre Classification for Fictions in School Libraries (학교도서관을 위한 소설장서의 장르 분류 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Eunhee;Lee, Mihwa
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.115-136
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    • 2020
  • It is necessary to find a genre classification by reflecting the needs of users since a subject that makes up the highest proportion of books in the school library is fictions in literature and KDC cannot accept user's need to access fiction in school libraries. This study suggested the genre classification for fictions in school libraries through surveying classification of fictions in domestic and foreign libraries, and comparing between classification systems of online/offline bookstores, KDC and DDC. For developing the genre classification system, it is to collect genre terms for fictions, to extract 14 genre headings among them, and to assign the acronym of English genre terms as classification notation. For applying the newly developed genre classification, KDC number of one middle school library was converted as the 3 methods such as combination of KDC, genre term before 800 and only genre terms. This study could contribute to suggest the genre classification of fiction to reflect user needs and to overcome the limitation of hierachical classification in KDC.

The Non-fiction Participants in the Reality Observational Entertainment Program as Social Actors: Focusing on Youn's Kitchen Season 2 (사회적 배우로서의 리얼리티 관찰 예능 프로그램의 일반인 참여자: <윤식당2>를 중심으로)

  • Ryu, Jae Hyung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.274-289
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to regard the non-fiction participants in the reality observational entertainment program as social actors. For this, the study has examined the concepts of social actor and performance, understood how the performances of social actors are projected onto the screen, and textually analyzed Youn's Kitchen season 2. As a result, the non-fiction participants(the guests) of Youn's Kitchen functioned as the social actors who performed the roles derived from their social relations under the consciousness of the camera. The more the number of social actors in the observational space increased, the more the number of their performing roles grew. Their everyday activities have been chosen by various filmic devices, such as the cameras, within the specific frame of hybrid performance mode that representational and presentational performances coexist.

A Japanese American Female Writer's Tearing Down the Barriers: Lydia Minatoya's Talking to High Monks in the Snow and The Strangeness of Beauty. (재미 일본인 여류작가의 경계 허물기 : 리디아 미나토야의 『설중 고승여담』과 『미의 기묘함』)

  • Kim, Ilgu
    • English & American cultural studies
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.1-27
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    • 2010
  • By taking the form of a fictional autobiography, a Japanese American woman writer Lydia Minatoya tries to solve the inexpressible confliction which Japanese Americans experience in their living in America. In her first published fiction, Talking to High Monks in the Snow, the writer faithfully tries to follow the Japanese I-story tradition where meandering of personal petit histories and frequent self-pities are constructed without solid action, characters and plot. Here appear many accidental others whom function as significant yet fleeting subalterns. In contrast, in the second fiction, The Strangeness of Beauty published seven years later, the I-narratives undergoes some drastic transformations by authorial intrusion, dramatic and haiku styles, and appearances of actorial agents. Just working as an invisible yet important stagehand (kuroko in Japanese) behind the stage of life, the author now handles her own self-inquiry through more controllable distance and maturity as directors or photographers often do. However, despite achieving dramatic actions and artistic elegance mainly thanks to her adoption of western masterpieces's grand narratives, Minatoya seems to stop in the midway in her tallying work of fiction with fact by delaying the larger imaginable conflict through which the temporarily gained autonomy can be turned into a disaster anytime. Nonetheless, the reader feels relieved and encouraged after recognizing the fragile Asian female self's transformation as a new, flexible and autonomous self by her unwavering contact with two contrasting cultures and providing silent minority female characters with gradually stronger and uncannier voices.

The Usage of Animation and Social value.Clothing behavior of Adolescents (청소년들의 애니메이션 이용현황과 사회적 가치관.의복행동에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Tae-Kyung;Chae, Jin-Mie;Oh, Kyung-Wha
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.127-138
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to find out the usage of animation and its relation to the social values and clothing behaviour of adolescents. A survey was conducted in four different high schools in the metropolitan area (Seoul) and 187copies were analyzed by SPSS 12.0 package. The results were as follows; First, According to Usage survey, a number of adolescents watched animations mainly through the internet and 39% of them used the internet $2{\sim}3$ times a week. The most watched genre of animation was action/science-fiction but some differences were observed between male students and female students. Male students enjoyed action/science-fiction, comedy and drama/romance, whereas female students enjoyed drama/romance, action/science-fiction and comedy in the decreasing order. Second, It was found that the favorite genre of animation by adolescents had influence on their community mind and materialism. The most significant genre affectingcommunity life was drama/romance and the one affecting materialism of adolescents was action/science-fiction. Third, Materialism had a significant influence on clothing conformity and the next was community mind. Only materialism proved to be a significant variable affecting fashion followers. In conclusion, the results of this study showed that the adolescents' community life and materialism were significantly influenced by their favorite genre of the animation, and their social values were related to their clothing behaviors.

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