방법으로서의 문화연구와 중국문학

임춘성 중국학연구회 2017 중국학연구 Vol.- No.79

Although the ‘cultural studies’ turn’ has been around for a long time, the acceptance of it has been slow in Korean Chinese literature. This article critically searched the fact that the cultural studies of the Birmingham school focused on popular culture research as a reaction to criticism of popular culture as anarchy at the stage of ‘study of culture’, and proposed to break the barriers of high culture and popular culture and to carry out interdisciplinary research on the good culture. From the ‘study of culture’ of Leavisism to the ‘cultural studies’ of the Birmingham school, it is time to move on to the ‘cultural studies of culture’ stage. This results in an emphasis on ‘cultural studies as a method’. In this paper, we present ‘cultural studies of culture’. This is to break down the barriers between the existing high culture and popular culture, ‘study of culture’ and ‘cultural studies’, and to research culturally it by submitting a new culture concept that encompasses high culture and popular culture. If the Birmingham school, which criticized it and advocated ‘study of culture’ centering on popular culture, was in the second stage, now we need to move on to the new third stage. This is an extension of the research subject from the viewpoint of the existing ‘cultural studies’, and it is advantageous to establish the research methodology from the viewpoint of ‘study of culture’. ‘문화연구로의 전환’이 일어난 지 오래되었지만 한국 중문학계에서는 그 수용이 더딘 편이었다. 이 글에서는 ‘문화의 연구’ 단계에서 대중문화를 무정부 상태라고 비판한 것에 대한 반발로, 버밍햄학파의 문화연구가 대중문화 연구에 중점을 두었던 사실을 비판적으로 포착해서, 새로운 단계의 문화연구는 고급문화와 대중문화의 장벽을 타파하고 양성문화에 대한 학제간 융복합적 연구를 진행할 것을 제안했다. 리비스주의의 ‘문화의 연구’로부터 버밍햄학파의 ‘문화연구’로, 이제 다시 ‘문화에 대한 문화연구’ 단계로 나아가자는 것이다. 이는 ‘방법으로서의 문화연구’에 대한 강조로 귀결된다. 이 논문에서는 ‘문화에 대한 문화연구(cultural studies of culture)’를 제기한다. 이는 기존의 고급문화와 대중문화의 구분, ‘문화의 연구’와 ‘문화연구’의 장벽을 타파하고, 고급문화와 대중문화를 아우르는 문화 개념을 새롭게 제출하면서 그것을 ‘문화적으로’ 연구하자는 것이다. 고급문화 중심의 리비스주의가 1단계였고, 이를 비판하고 대중문화 중심의 문화연구를 제창한 버밍햄학파가 2단계였다면, 이제는 고급문화와 대중문화를 구분하지 말고 양성문화를 발굴하고 악성문화를 지양하는 새로운 3단계로 나아갈 필요가 있다. 이는 기존의 ‘문화연구’의 입장에서 보면 연구의 대상을 확장하는 것이고, ‘문화의 연구’의 입장에서 보면 연구 방법론을 확립하는 장점이 있다.

Qualitative Study on Class on Cultural Assets using 3D Printer : Centering on Classes for Fifth and Sixth Grade Students

Kim Hyo Jung 한국상품학회 2017 商品學硏究 Vol.35 No.2

In education on cultural assets, it is important to develop skills to communicate cultural assets in modern view and create new culture. The search of a more interesting and exciting approach for education on cultural assets started this study. An interesting teaching tool that would suggest a direction for modern culture withing severing cultural assets fromthe modern age and bridge the past and the present was needed for the education on cultural assets. Since the cultural assets were not an interesting subject for students, this study sought a new educational approach that can view cultural assets in modern sense. To improve the curriculumof class on cultural assets, this study used 3D printer as the teaching tool capable of carry out the class on cultural assets in an interesting manner and examined the attitude students developed toward 3D printer and howtheir thoughts and attitudes toward 3D printer changed through the class on cultural assets using 3D printer as the teaching tool. The knowledge and education about and the thought and attitude toward cultural assets are important in cultural assets education, and developing the ability to create new culture is also important while communicating in modern viewpoint. This study used the 3D printer as the teaching tool to view the past in modern viewpoint and examined two problems in order to examine the role of 3D printer as a teaching tool in class on cultural assets. The study on the thoughts and attitudes of students toward cultural assets, the class theme, and 3D printer, the teaching tool, can be interpreted differently based on various concepts and theories. This study focused on the attitude that students developed toward 3D printer and how their thoughts and attitudes changed through the class on cultural assets using 3D printer. Based on the findings, this study focused on how to draw the interest of students in education on cultural assets using various teaching tools. It is difficult to generalize the results and draw conclusion from this study due to short research period and limited subjects, and better conclusion can be reached through follow-up studies.

2019 한국 문화연구, 현황과 과제

천정환 ( Cheon Jung-hwan ) 영미문학연구회 2019 안과 밖 Vol.0 No.46

This paper discusses the changes in the studies of Korean culture since 2010’s. Cultural studies based on Korean literature have three interdisciplinary fields(categories): the research of Korean modern literary history via cultural studies, the studies of Korean modern cultural history, and the studies of ordinary culture. I evaluate the current status of these fields, and examine the tasks in the aspects of institutions and contents. Recently the research of Korean modern literary history via cultural studies left remarkable outcomes especially in the studies of literature and culture in 1960’s and 1970’s, translation culture since the Liberation, female literature and feminism view on the reinterpretation of literature history, the studies of people’s literature(Minjung literature) and labor literature, and the studies of history of cold war culture. The studies of Korean literature will continue to push back the boundaries of ‘literature’ and to transcend nationalism, elitism and androcentrism. Meanwhile ‘literature to culture’ in Korea has kept pace with ‘literature to knowledge.’ In other words, the studies of intellectual history, university history, and cultural history have actively developed on the basis of national research projects. In addition, cultural studies are gradually expanding its boundaries with new methodology, and undeveloped materials and fields. The studies of ordinary culture hold many institutional and theoretical tasks. I looked into the theoretical tasks of the studies of culture stressing on political economic and technoculture paradigm. Cultural studies should become a practical knowledge, going beyond ideological criticism that is easy to be trapped in convention or restoration, and it should create many practical interventions in terms of political economics, scientific technology, and urbanization. Making move conscious efforts to build more camps and strategies for next generations of scholous in the studies of culture will bring a solution to the crisis of the studies of culture.

유학 현상에 관한 문화연구적 접근: 태국인 유학생들의 한국에 관한 상상

방희경 한국언론정보학회 2022 한국언론정보학보 Vol.115 No.-

This study attempts a Cultural Studies approach to Thai international students studying in Korea to reveal what imaginaries about Korea they tend to build. Extant studies on the phenomenon of study abroad are divided into three categories including geographic approach, psychological approach, and sociological approach. Despite their achievements, the extant studies have not considered what narratives foreign students use to construct their imaginaries about their destination country. Therefore, this study proposes a Cultural Studies approach, aiming to examine how a specific space is represented by international students, and more specifically what concepts and narratives have replaced the Korean War which once determined the image of Korea at a global level. As a result of conducting in-depth interviews with 20 Thai international students, it was revealed that the interview participants have chosen Korea as their destination country for the purpose of acquiring official cultural capital, and using Korean popular cultural capital as a springboard. Setting a high value on economy over politics, the participants tended to perceive Korea as “a developed industrial country in Asia,” and consider economic democratization, equality of opportunity, and the virtue of sharing as main characteristics of Korea. However, they expressed their regret that it is hard to find a relaxing life in Korea. By examining international students’ imaginaries about Korea through a Cultural Studies approach, this study ultimately attempts to reveal in what place Asian young people hope to live and study.

‘Cultural Studies’ as Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

천정환 한국학중앙연구원 한국학중앙연구원 2013 THE REVIEW OF KOREAN STUDIES Vol.16 No.2

This paper examines the boundary and status of as well as issues surrounding ‘cultural studies’ (munhwaronjeok yeongu) as an interdisciplinary study and renewal of traditional literary studies. Basically, cultural studies is essentially inclusive and trans-disciplinary. Although cultural studies is in a particular proximity with other fields of research, it neither shares values with nor falls under major disciplines such as Korean literary studies (gungmunhak), Anglo-American cultural studies, or their tributaries including history of everyday life and micro-history. It observes and critically analyzes political aspects and structures of dominance reflected in cultural phenomena. Cultural studies has always been sensitive to ‘democracy from below’ and its culture, and sought ways to make intellectual action against commodification and marginalization of knowledge and cultural system. Until recently, this task has been fulfilled by studies of ‘cultural (munhwaronjeok) literary history,’ cultural history, or popular culture. This paper also outlines the methodology and perspective of cultural studies by discussing the issues and problems regarding texturalism and other theories. It also argues that the neo-liberalist ‘Regime’ has profound influence on interdisciplinary studies in terms of how Korean literary scholars and critics are employed or supported; the transformation in the writing process and the system of struggle for recognition; as well as governing our bodies and micro-relationships.

연극에 대한 문화연구적 접근 -"이론" 도입의 한계를 중심으로-

김용수 ( Yongn Soo Kim ) 한국연극학회 2010 한국연극학 Vol.0 No.40

Cultural Studies built on the critical mind of New Left exposes the relationship between culture and power, and investigates how this relationship develops the cultural convention. It has achieved the new perspective that could make us to think culture and art in terms of political correctness. However, the critical voices against the theoretical premises of Cultural Studies have been increased as its heyday in 1980s was nearly over. For instance, Terry Eagleton, a former Marxist literary critic, declared in 2003 that the golden age of cultural theory is long past. This essay, therefore, intends to show the weak foundations on which the approaches of cultural studies to theatre rest and to clarify the general problem of their introduction to theatre studies. The approach of cultural studies to theatre takes the form of `top-down inquiry` as it applies a theory to a particular play or historical period. In other word, from the theory the writer moves to the particular case. The result is not an inquiry but rather a demonstration. This circularity can destroy the point of serious intellectual investigation as the theory dictates answers. The goal-oriented narrow viewpoint as a logical consequence of `top-down inquiry` makes the researcher to favor the plays or the parts of a play that are proper to test a theory. As a result it loses the fair judgment on the artistic value of a play, and brings about the misinterpretation. The interpreter-oriented reading is the other defect of cultural studies as it disregards the inherent meaning of the text, distorting a play. The approach of cultural studies also consists of a conventionality as it arrives at a stereotyped interpretation by using certain conventions of reasoning and rhetoric. The cultural theories are fundamentally the `outside theories` that seek to explain not theatre but the very broad features of society and politics. Consequently their application to theatre risks the destructive criticism, disregarding the inherent experience of theatre. Most of, if not all, cultural theories, furthermore, are proven to be lack of empirical basis. The alternative method to them is a `cognitive science` that proves scientifically our mind being influenced by bodily experience. The application of cultural materialism to Shakespeare`s <King Lear> is one of the cases that reveal the limits of cultural studies. Jonathan Dollimore and Water Cohen provide a kind of `canonical study` in this application that is imitated by the succeeding researchers. As a result the interpretation of <King Lear> has been flooded with repetitive critical remarks, revealing the problem of `top-down inquiry` and conventional reasoning. Cultural Studies is antipodal to theatre in some respect. It is interested chiefly in the social and political reality while theatre aims to create the fiction world. The theatre studies, therefore, may have to risk the danger of destroying its own base when it adopts cultural studies uncritically. The different stance between theatre and cultural theories also occurs from the opposition of humanism vs. antihumanism. We have to introduce cultural theories selectively and properly not to destroy the inherent experience and domain of theatre.

인문학에서 인문콘텐츠학으로의 확장: 문화콘텐츠학 1세대의 논의를 중심으로

신광철 인문콘텐츠학회 2022 인문콘텐츠 Vol.- No.64

Cultural content studies occupy a unique position in Korean academia. Cultural content studies has a history of almost simultaneously launching conferences and departments. Academic societies and departments were established by existing humanities scholars who discovered the importance and possibility of cultural content phenomena. The first generation of cultural content studies were humanities scholars represented by literature, history, and philosophy. Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Korean Humanities Contents Society, it will be meaningful to reflect on the legacy left by the first generation of cultural content studies. In order to reflect on the legacy of first-generation cultural content scholars, I reflected on the academic work of Park Sang-cheon of literature, Kim Ki-deok of history, and Lee Ki-sang of philosophy. This study explored themes such as recognition of the background and context of their cultural contents phenomenon, definition of cultural contents concept, and composition and prospects of cultural content studies. Each of them extended the perspectives of literature, history, and philosophy to expand from the humanities to the humanities content studies. The flow of cultural content studies as a complex science proposed by Park Sang-cheon, cultural content studies as a humanities convergence science by Kim Ki-duk, and cultural content studies as an integration science by Lee Ki-sang each have their own characteristics, and their characteristics were derived from the humanities branch of literature, history, and philosophy. 한국 학계에서 문화콘텐츠학은 독특한 지위를 차지하고 있다. 문화콘텐츠학은 학회와 학과가 거의 동시에 출범한 역사를 지니고 있다. 문화콘텐츠 현상의 중요성과 가능성을 발견한 기존 인문학자들에 의해 학회와 학과가 세워졌다. 문화콘텐츠학 1세대는 문학, 사학, 철학으로 대표되는 인문학자들이었다. 인문콘텐츠학회 설립 20주년을 앞두고 있는 지금, 문화콘텐츠학 1세대가 남긴 유산을 되새기는 작업은 의미 있는 일이 될 것이다. 1세대 문화콘텐츠학자들의 유산에 대한 성찰을 위해, 문학의 박상천, 사학의 김기덕, 철학의 이기상 선생(先生)의 학문적 작업을 반추해 보았다. 금번의 연구에서는 이들의 문화콘텐츠 현상의 배경 및 맥락에 대한 인식, 문화콘텐츠 개념 정의, 문화콘텐츠학의 구성과 전망 등의 주제를 천착해 보았다. 이들은 각각 문학, 사학, 철학의 관점을 연장하여 인문학에서 인문콘텐츠학으로의 확장을 도모하였다. 박상천이 제기한 복합학으로서의 문화콘텐츠학, 김기덕이 제기한 인문융합학으로서의 문화콘텐츠학, 이기상이 제기한 통합학으로서의 문화콘텐츠학의 흐름은 각각 나름의 특징을 지녔으며, 그 특징은 문학, 사학, 철학이라는 인문학의 분과 학문으로부터 비롯된 것이었다.

수잔 리 포스터를 중심으로 시작된 일련의 무용 문화연구 경향 연구

김현정 한국무용예술학회 2006 무용예술학연구 Vol.18 No.-

A Trend of Cultural Studies of Dance Initiated by Susan Leigh FosterHyun Jung Kim, Ph.D.LecturerSungkyunkwan University, Suwon University, and the Korean Natioinal University of the ArtsThis paper aims to explore how the critical issues of cultural studies have influenced the recent development of dance studies in the United States. Cultural studies is an umbrella term that includes theoretical approaches drawn from poststructuralism, postcolonialism, multiculturalism, contemporary Marxism, new historicism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and feminism. Cultural studies, which investigates the natural as a social, cultural, historical construction, has strong effects on methodologies in dance field as well as the humanities. Susan Leigh Foster initiated a trend of interdisciplinary dance scholarship in 1986 and since then some scholars have facilitated it following the theoretical approaches of cultural studies. The dance scholars examine dance as an embodied social, cultural practice. They enable dance studies previously marginalized within the academy to be a major academic discipline. Dancing bodies as a primary text manifest or subvert meaning and identity.In South Korea, more and more universities have offered cultural studies programs. The interdisciplinary programs are based on art history, film studies, gender studies, popular culture, and mass media, not on dance field. Considering the stagnant situation of domestic dance academy, it is necessary to apply the debates of cultural studies to dance scholarship. Cultural studies opens up a possibility for dance scholarship to go into wider academic communities.

문화콘텐츠학의 학문 영역과 연구 분야 설정에 관한 연구

박상천(Park Sang-chun) 인문콘텐츠학회 2007 인문콘텐츠 Vol.0 No.10

문화콘텐츠나 문화콘텐츠산업이 사회적으로 큰 영향력을 가지고 크게 확산되고 있는 만큼 교육과 학문연구도 빠른 속도로 확산되고 있다. 그러나 문화콘텐츠 관련연구가 기존의 학문 영역이나 연구 분야와는 차별적 가치를 가지고 있다는 인식에도 불구하고 아직까지 독자적인 학문의 영역이나 연구 분야로 인식되고 있지는 않다. 본 연구는 먼저 문화콘텐츠 연구가 별개의 분과 학문으로 정립되어야 하는 당위성을 논의하기 위하여 학문 분류에 대한 원론적 접근을 시도하였다. 이 논의를 통해 학문 분류의 기준인 ‘분명한 학문 대상’을 가지고 있고 기존의 학문 영역의 방법론과는 다른 새로운 연구의 방법론이 필요하고 또 활발하게 개발되고 있는 분야라는 점에서 개별 분과 학문으로 정립될 수 있는 당위성을 논하였다. 또한 이 연구는 학술진흥재단의 연구분야 분류에 문화콘텐츠학이 등재되어야 할 필요성을 제기하고 이를 위한 문화콘텐츠 연구자들의 토론의 자료를 제시하는 데에 한 가지 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 문화콘텐츠학의 연구 영역의 범주와 하위 연구분야에 관한 논의를 시도하였다. 이 논의를 통해 연구의 대상인 문화콘텐츠가 가지고 있는 복합체적 속성과 앞으로 정립되는 문화콘텐츠학은 각 학문 영역의 융합이 이루어진 복합적 학문의 성격을 가져야 한다는 당위성을 논하고 문화콘텐츠학을 ‘복합학’의 하위 분류로 편성하는 것이 타당하다는 점을 주장하였다. 본 연구는 이러한 논의를 바탕으로 문화콘텐츠학의 하위 연구 분야 분류에 관한 두 가지 안을 제시하였고 세분류를 설정하는 세 가지 안을 제시하였다. This study is about discussing the need for cultural contents studies to establish as a systemized independent study, which is to be separated from other studies. That's why lots of cultural contents departments were established at university in Korea, concerned studies have been studied actively, and now it's under its own way. As this new study has its own character of mixed studies, so it should have its own new system of multi studies out of existing system of classifying studies. I tried to insist that cultural contents studies should be established as the independent department with the theory, quoting the Tefko Saracevic and Alan M. Ress, who presented the requisites for the establishment, and prove that cultural contents studies have already had the specific system as the independent department. And I presented the Korea Research Foundation should register the cultural contents study as the independent one on the classified table of its studies' field. For that I also prepared proposal about cultural contents study's domain and subordinate fields of study.

New Orientations of Cultural Studies in 21st Century China

( Wang Ning ) 한국영어영문학회 2014 영어 영문학 Vol.60 No.2

Cultural Studies is characterized by being opposed to (elite) literary studies not only because it points to popular or non-elite literature which is usually not dealt with by elite literary scholars or comparatists, but also because it severely challenges the established literary canon and even tries to subvert this elite-oriented canon. In addition, Cultural Studies complements literary studies in that it contributes a great deal to the reconstruction of new literary canon by expanding the narrow domain of (elite) literature and its studies. What was not touched upon by traditional literary scholars is now studied by Cultural Studies scholars. In this sense, we should realize that it is not the field of Cultural Studies that occupies the domain of literary studies, but rather, it has expanded its traditional domain and added some new cultural elements. This article will illustrate how the interdisciplinary writings of some of the representative Anglo-American literary scholars have paved the way for effective dialogues between literary studies and Cultural Studies. I argue that the practice of Cultural Studies in China will not only contribute to global Cultural Studies in general, but also carry on equal dialogue with its Western and international counterparts. My purpose is to deal with the challenge of Cultural Studies to comparative literature studies in general before mapping the new orientations of Cultural Studies in 21st century China.