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A Method of Meeting between Cinema and Literature: Focusing on 《The Russian Novel》

This thesis is a study on a method of meeting between cinema andliterature through considering <The Russian Novel> directed and writtenby Shin Youn‐sik. The ultimate purpose of this study is to look at therelationship between novel and cinema. One of the distinguishing aspectsof recent novels is that cinema frequently appears as a motif or anessential material for a novel. This feature proves that novel and cinemahave overturned their roles so that they provide essential motifs to eachother or share equal positions. Now cinema is a new stimulus and anessential nutriment for novel. Similarly, one of the distinctive features ofcontemporary cinemas is that letter media like novels and poemsfrequently appear as a motif or an essential material for the genre. As in<The Russian Novel>, it is an interesting feature that most of contemporarycinemas frequently create a significant number of characters who like aliterature genre, who are related to the literature industry, or who areinterested in novel writing. The selection and choice of a subject matteris the result of the director’s(or the writer’s) careful attention andcognition. Therefore, the multiple uses of literature or novel in a cinemaindicate that directors are interested in literature and they are aware of itsnew significance. The usage of literature as a subject matter or motif ina cinema presents that a motion picture(cinema) and literature are forminga close relationship to each other. Accordingly, the relationship between literature and motion pictures legitimately has effects on each other’sstory telling.