KOR 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bloody Kisses, Melodrama, The Dilemma
Document Summary
Overlapping thematic grounds of two modes of imagination, moral logic of melodrama and the promise of salvation in christinity, as both emerged at a critical juncture of korean"s modern history. Melodramatic imagination provided a logical means to cope with tultumous and traumatic historical experiences - hyper dramatization of polarized forces as the old values were mediated by western, modern ones. Syncretism that allowed appropriation and amalgamation of the ideas and practices of the existing folk religions with protestatism history of indigenous religion strong tradition of confucian, ancestral worship previously incompatible, but put together now. Scene: christian woman who goes to fortune teller - syncretism allowed korea to do that. The dilemma of syncretism revolved around representations of women and their actions in postwar south korean films. The housemaid (1960) - kim kiyong flop not the only film where kim kong employed villainous women on kim kiyong (1922-98) and his film opening sequence.
