‘근대의 선정주의’로서 신파극의 변형과 연쇄극의 출현에 대한 연구

The transformation of the Sinpa drama(新派劇), the emergence of the Yeonsae drama(連鎖劇), and the sensationalism of the modern.

In this paper I discuss the emergence and aethestic of the Yeonsae drama in the context of the transformation of the Sinpa drama and the sensationalism of the modern. Consequently I propose the revised understanding of the Yeonsae drama below. First, it is time to appearing and contesting of vaious sensationalsims of the modern in 1910s, that is considered to the peroiod of the colonial domination of the military force by Japan imperialism. Second, Yeonsae drama was not the imitation of Rensgeki(Japan), but the result of the industrial context of the Chosun culture, that was consists of the situatoin of the Sinpa drama's industrial collape, the competition of Umigwan and Danseongsa around the initiative of the box office, and the passion and the effort of Chosun filmmaker(Park Seungpil and Kim Dosan). Third, Yeonsae drama is not the “metamorphsis of theater”(Yun Baiknam), but the vernacular modernism, which was the formation by new experiment of Sinpa drama and was the result of the reception of American serial film's sensationalsim. That is the experience of the new sense by the modern. Fourth, that Yeonsae drama is the origin of Korean cinema is not attributed to the appearance of Korean people in silver screen, but the refraction and the amplification of the sensationalism by the Yeonsae drama.