애니메이션의 생산동력으로서 신화적 상상력에 대한 기호학적 접근- 미야자키 하야오와 이성강의 작품을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Modern brilliant visual technique enables us to imagine mythic images and incarnate concrete images in our mind. Particularly, the world of contemporary animation is filled with the storming mythic images. This article is intended to find out mythic images of Japanese and Korean animation. The mythic images of two countries become similar cultural and historical experiences. Miyajaki Hayao and YiSunggang is the representative animation directors at each country. They have three similar common thoughts in their works. The first, they are using mythic meaning reaction with adapting mythic narrative and images. Their animations consume the mythic imagination with transforming original fables and ancient myths. So the mythic meaning forms a stream of consciousness. These two directors make use of myths, folk tale, fables, and legends at will. We can observe that these factors function as the mythic meaning. The second, they are focusing on the “girl images” to show multilateral desires. The two countries experience the bad historical events. The Korean peoples experience war and colonial times, whereas the Japanese people also experience the second world war. The girl image becomes a key term in two countries. The girl image represents the boy, the mother, the father, the nation, and the pure. The meaning of mid-teenage girl means cultural productive metaphor. The girl images include three symbolic meanings as like androgyne, liminal being, and modernity. The third, they are using the principle of bilateral sides, which is referred to as the evil and the good. However, they are not precise binary oppositions. This contrary meaning provides a new productive meaning in two directors. Mythology is a parole of history, so we can read a mythic metaphor beyond the historical cultures. This is the work of cultural semiosis. Animation is the signifier of myth, so we can read the signified of myth.