This study examines the origin and development of people’s cinema (minjung yŏnghwa) as the determining feature of the South Korean independent cinema movement in the 1980s. Defying the simplistic description of people’s cinema as political propaganda which arose in the mid 1980s, this study illuminates the multiple aspects of the idea that originated from the intricate dialogues between youth culture, minjung discourse and theories of resistant filmmaking. The 1980s youth culture rooted in universities is examined first to see how the youth culture functioned as both the producer and consumer of resistant cultural practices including people’s cinema. Based on this discussion, this study tackles the three main aspects of people’s cinema. First, it shows that people’s cinema emerged as an alternative film aesthetic to conventional narrative cinema, a variation of which was film documentary. Second, along with analysis of the film texts, it also shows how people’s cinema ideologically flanked cinema as an instrument of political activism. Lastly, it discusses the way in which people’s cinema developed into a national cinema thesis (minjok yŏnghwaron) in combination with North Korean film theory.
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Abstract INTRODUCTION THE IMAGINED MINJUNG COMMUNITY PEOPLE'S CINEMA : AN EXTENSION OF CINEMA PEOPLE'S CINEMA : ACTIVIST CINEMA PEOPLE'S CINEMA : NATIONAL CINEMA CONCLUSION REFERENCES
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South Korean independent cinemapeople’s cinemaactivist cinemanational cinema thesisNorth Korean film theory
한국연구원은 1970년 5월 한국 민속의 각 분야에 걸친 자료의 수집과 학술적 연구를 목적으로 '한국민속연구소'로 출발하였다. 그 후 1973년 5월 연구 분야를 확대하며 민속뿐만 아니라 한국학 전반에 걸친 연구를 위해 '한국학연구소'로 개편하였고, 다시 1989년 3월 한국의 국제적 위상의 부상과 함께 한국학 연구의 중요성이 높아짐에 따라 '한국학연구원'으로 확대, 개편하였다. 한국학연구원은 한국학 전반에 걸친 연구를 통해 지역과 민족문화 발전에 기여하며 한국학의 세계화를 위해서 학술활동을 강화하고 나아가 내·외국인에 대한 한국문화 교육을 담당하고자 한다.