분단의 영화적 형상화와 무교적 메타포

On Division’s Cinematic Embodiment and Shamanistic Metaphor: Focusing on Cultural Philosophy of C.A. van Peursen

This article aims at analyzing Korean shamanistic metaphor in the Korean division movie, The Man with Three Coffins (1988). For the analysis, I indebted C.A. van Peursen’s concept of culture, specifically,three types of cultural development: the mythical, the ontological, and the functional step. Division movies are related to the division of nation so that we can understand the implications of Korean historical experiences. In The Man with Three Coffins, the movie made in the late 1980s, several Korean shamanistic rituals appear, and it could, I believe, reveal the function of shamanistic metaphors which represent collective consciousness in the historical and political situation of divided Korea. Furthermore, this way of understanding of the division movies will be supported by the narrative and discourse analysis of the late 1980s, and the reality of the division movies will be reconstructed as follows: First,through the analysis of narrative components such as characters, plots,and themes, the type of key figures will be identified. Secondly, the key figures who appear in the division movies can be seen as though they are overwhelmed by coping mechanism, dreams, and fantasies, and that is the moment which the flashback format plays its role positively. This first-person flashback to their stream of consciousness is, thus, analyzed by montage analysis of actors actions, speeches, mis-en-scenes, and visual settings. According to C.A. van Peursen, culture is an effect of human activity. At this point, culture becomes not a Noun but a Verb. It indicates that culture is not a fixed but processing. Consequently, this study examines the strategies represented in visual culture such as division movie with strong tensions among immanence and surpass,duality of culture, and types of cultural development.