분쟁서사 <뮌헨>에 나타난 인종적 재현 연구 = On the Racial Representation of the Israel-Palestine Conflicts in Munich

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Even before its release, Munich caused hot controversies among the movie critics, who were polarized into two camps: one criticized the movie for its alleged attitude of ‘moral equivalence’ towards the Palestinian terrorists and the Israeli counter-terrorists while the other praised it for its unbiased treatment of the two antagonistic groups. This paper assesses the current criticism on this movie by examining the racial representations of the two ethnic groups. It also analyzes the various methods by which the director tries to ‘re-humanize’ the often-demonized two parties. Although the humanity of Palestinian terrorists as well as that of the Israelis is emphasized in this movie, the emphasis itself is very much lopsided. The movie ends up successfully constructing the image of a nonconformist, diasporic Jew, which, this paper argues, not only constitutes its forte but also its limitation. This cinematic maneuver can be regarded as a great achievement in that it articulates a dissident voice within the supposedly homogeneous political entity of the Israeli Jews. At the same time, it runs the risk of undermining, or even foreclosing, possible critiques of the state terrorism of Israel by emphasizing a ‘reformed’ conscientious Jewish subject. What makes the matter worse is that the political insights into the history of the territorial issue, as soon as they surface, are drowned due to the shift of the cinematic focus from the politics of (counter-) terrorism to the psychological and moral dimensions typical of morality plays.

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