This essay tries to define Korean Blockbuster in historical context. The Korean Blockbuster has been considered as translation of Hollywood blockbuster. It was born in the similar situation with the case of Hollywood blockbuster. In 90's, Jaebul's entering into the Film industry and the change of government's regulation changed the film making convention. With this change going on, the big budget film called Korean Blockbuster came out. The Korean Blockbuster has been considered as cultural industry. T. Adorno and Horkheimer called the big capital entering the cultural field as cultural industry. Cultural industry homogenizes the national culture and represents the ideology of the governing classes. The Korean Blockbuster is cultural industry like Hollywood Blockbuster for sure. It was born in the same situation as Hollywood Blockbuster, using same strategy. But, it has different position as national cinema. Many people consider the Korean Blockbuster as national cinema fighting against Hollywood cultural industry's dominance. So, the Korean Blockbuster has the contradictory position both of cultural industry and national cinema.
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1. 들어가며 2. 문화산업으로서의 한국 영화산업 1) 한국 영화산업 변화의 시작 2) 문화산업으로서의 한국 영화산업 3. 문화산업 혹은 민족영화? 1) 민족영화로서의 한국 영화 2) 한국형 블록버스터가 가진 민족영화로서의 가능성 참고문헌 Abstract
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Korean Blockbustercultural industrynational cinema