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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...