뮤지컬 영화를 통해 본 장르 분석 연구-롭 마샬 감독의 영화 <시카고>를 중심으로-

Analysis of Genre through a Musical Film: with a focus on the movie ‘Chicago’ by director Rob Marshall

The film ‘Chicago’ follows the constructive background of violent dramaturgy of crime, violence and murder that are easily found in the order genre films such as Western, Gangster, and Film Noir. However, the film draws a conclusion of integration genre for delivering the message in the end. After Velma and Roxie get out from the jail, a declined vaudevillian Velma suggests Roxie who is down on her luck after she got out from the jail to do the collaboration act with her. This return to the female-dominant reality indicates the unification of contradictory cause and salvation. Velma and Roxie return to the world of show business with the enormous success that they have been always longing to be reconciling and adapting with their new lives and livening up with challenge and passion. In a conclusion, Rob Marshall’s musical film Chicago is the challenge of a genre in order to emphasize the message it tries to deliver to the audience by applying the order genre to the integration genre. This is so called the genre twisting.