Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)

The Predicament and Redemption of Motherhood in Chinese and Korean Movies Taking "Lost, Found" and "Missing" as Examples

Authors
Lin Zhang, Yuzhen Guo
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Lin Zhang
Available Online July 2019.
DOI
10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.281How to use a DOI?
Keywords
female film; motherhood; gentle mother; single-faced mother
Abstract

This study uses a feminist perspective to reflect on the predicament of motherhood/mother role in different social classes and cultural contexts in China and South Korea through the analysis of the mother role in “Lost, Found” and “Missing”, and further ponder over the redemption road of women in contemporary social culture. According to the changes of social and economic development and gender ideology, mother image is divided into four types: “gentle mother”, “scientific mother”, “single-faced mother” and “autonomous mother”. Based on this, two major kinds of mother role have been constructed in the films, and then explore the conflict between the four mother image values contained in it, and summarize it into the ubiquitous writing of the dilemma of different groups of mothers in modern society. The self-redemption and female mutual rescue presented in the film are not only the torture and reflection of mother's morality and survival predicament in the mainstream context, but also the imaginative performance index of women breaking the predicament, thus giving the film the symbolic value of contemporary social culture.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-752-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.281How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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