한국 영화검열과 코미디영화

Pre-censorship of Film Censorship and Korean Film Comedy in the late 1960's

This study starts from curiosity to know why the comedy film exceptionally hadn't been inspected in strict film censorship in the late 1960's. The preceding studies explained the history of Korean film censorship and insisted on film rating system, but there was few things to learn about the movie text. And this study is to analyze the influence of film censorship on the film comedy in the late 1960's. First, I want to consider the relation between the content of the film censorship and the narrative of the film comedy. Park Jeong-Hee's Administration reinforced anti-Communism ideology in the hostility between South Korea and North Korea, and insisted anti-decadence drive and economy in consumption for modernization and economic development. This policies influenced on the narratives of the film comedy. Park Jeong-Hee's Administration claimed a social organism and unification of idea, and wanted to control public thought by both regulations of anti-government films and encouragement of national policy films. Because of this influence of censorship, there are incongruity of a content and a form, restriction on expression, and an escape from reality in film comedy. Secondly, I want to consider political, economical censorship. In the political censorship, Park Jeong-Hee's Administration strictly controled the social influence of film by systematic film law to reinforce its power. And the economical censorship, Park Jeong-Hee's Administration used both systematic exclusion mechanism-double surveillance system, a stop of production/exhibition of film-and intentional upbringing policy-a share of an income right, promotion of excellent movie-. Then filmmakers controled film comedy to get commercial (financial) advantage-both withdrawing cost of film production and box-office profits-. Therefore formally the film comedy in the late 1960's wasn't strictly controled by the government, but informally was very influenced by the political, economical censorship in its narrative. As a result this pre-censorship had powerful influence on film comedy more than post-censorship.