중국 민족주의 영화에 나타난 중국 대중의 감정구조: 영화 <장진호>의 서사와 사회적 맥락

초록

This study aims to reveal the representation, meaning and characteristics of Chinese nationalist films and the structure of feeling shared by the Chinese public, focusing on the narrative of the Chinese film series called by <The Battle at Lake Changjin>. Specifically, this essay analyzes how the film <The Battle at Lake Changjin> expresses the structure of feeling shared in Chinese society and how it connects to the social context through Chatman’s narrative analysis, mainly by story analysis (paradigmatic analysis, syntagmatic analysis) and discourse analysis. The result shows that the film <The Battle at Lake Changjin> combines the fate of the individuals with a grand narrative by constructing the story of the protagonist ‘Wu Wanli’ participating in the Korean War. This narrative concludes that the war was a legitimate act to ‘protect the home and defend the country’, as revealed through syntagmatic analysis. Paradigmatic analysis shows that the film projects the relationship between the United States and China onto its characters, establishing a binary opposition. Discourse analysis reveals that the film maximizes emotional expression and gains audience empathy by utilizing narrative perspectives. Consequently, the message and emotion conveyed by the film’s narrative, characters, and plot stimulates nationalist sentiment, effectively triggering the structure of feeling shared by the Chinese public and enabling box office success in China. However, this point is criticized because it performs a series of governance functions by flexibly applying the context of recent nationalist sentiments and anti-American stance attempted by the Xi Jinping administration to the film. In other words, <The Battle at Lake Changjin> series stirs nationalist emotions among contemporary Chinese audiences by incorporating anti-American elements, thus countering the United States’ perspective and promoting the Chinese narrative.

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