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Vol.22, No.0, 367 ~ 377, 2009
Title
Study on family-oriented female heroism in animation「Mulan」
조필호 Cho Pill-ho , 최인숙 Choi In-sook
Abstract
「Mulan」is one of the oriental stories, and is especially concerned with female heroism among them. Family-oriented heroism of Mulan was analyzed to materialize heroines with a view to serve the purpose of this study. In order to overcome the existing limitations of approaching heroism by their achievements or visual analysis, heroin fictions and movies were analyzed to understand the social backgrounds where heroins appear. Through these analyses, it is found that the appearance of heroins involves a change or fall of the male-dominant ideology, and it can be regarded as a social phenomenon that the appearance of heroin is accompanied by a social revolution. In addition, the conflict with the world appearing in the course of hardships was divided into three categories such as a individual, a family, and a nation by means of materialization of heroins, so that the characteristics of heroines according to those categories can be understood with the three materialized classification criteria. And, by introducing analytical framework in narrative structure for analyzing literary works, followings were analyzed; the fact that narrative characteristics which applied from primitive fairy tales to modern animations are one of the substantial traits of human spirit, and coexistence of exceptional aspects. The things that exist with suffering motif in heroines were defined as a desire for self-discovery, and Mulan`s desire for self-discovery and the way it is presented in those literary works were examined. Lastly, those characteristics which can be determined as family-oriented traits in materializing the heroism of Mulan was studied through work analysis. Heroins can be materialized by women-driven values through structuring an individual, a family, and a nation, and this study presents a possibility of multilateral and non-customary approach breaking from a series of mono-lateral and customary views which look upon a hero as a being, both childish and visual.
Key Words
뮬란, 여성영웅, 가정지향, Mulan, Female Heroine and Family-orientated
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