The Study on the Aesthetic Possibility of History Documentary and Thick Text - Focusing on the Analysis of 〈Cheonggyecheon Medley〉

The purpose of this study is to explore media aesthetic characteristics and the relation of the narrative in 〈Cheonggyecheon Medley〉, to investigate expressionism aesthetic possibility in history documentary. I pay attention to the media aesthetics of history documentary in which the existing researches had little interests and attempt to reveal the importance of media aesthetic factors and their possibility in representing history through this. The conclusion of this paper is as follows:
First, 〈Cheonggyecheon Medley〉 reproduced Cheonggyecheon and modern history in Korea by encoding various the media aesthetic factors. The main media aesthetic features that run through this work are dissonance and collision montage.
Second, 〈Cheonggyecheon Medley〉 has the narrative of the criticism or fascinating on Korea’s industrialization·modernization. Dissonance and collision montage of the media aesthetic features in the work make it possible to reproduce the narrative. The aesthetics of disharmony and unnaturalness establish inconsistent and cracked the narrative of modern/modernity.
Third, 〈Cheonggyecheon Medley〉 shows the possibility of ‘thick text’ by representing history allegorically and poetically using media aesthetic factors. Allegoric and poetic history opens the possibility of the various interpretations rather than history through explicit explanation or customed narrative structure.