In this blog post, we’ll take a step-by-step look at how the romantic comedy genre internalizes a male-centered perspective, using representative works as examples. Romantic Comedies and Their Historical Background Romantic comedies are a genre that many audiences enjoy without feeling any pressure. In fact, a 2004 survey of moviegoers in Seoul found that romance and melodrama were the...
Why does the humor in Korean romantic comedies function as a device reinforcing the ideology of purity?
This blog post examines how the humor in Korean romantic comedies has combined with the ideology of purity to operate as a device that reinforces patriarchal order rather than satirizing it, using film examples. Introduction Frank Capra’s “It Happened One Night” is a film that depicts the journey from adversaries to marriage between the only daughter of a wealthy family and a...
How does the film “The Classic” revive past love with present-day emotion?
In this blog post, I will calmly examine how the film “The Classic” intertwines past and present love to revive the audience’s emotions in the present tense, focusing on its narrative structure and directorial devices. A film that thawed a frozen heart All the memories of college life—they undoubtedly held both the joys and pains of my early twenties. Looking back now, those memories...