This paper discusses the storytelling techniques of television drama, focusing on why two ‘similar’ television mini-series Damo(꿱캡, Woman Detective) and Chuno(股큰, Slave Chaser) could be definitely recognized as ‘dissimilar’ texts, maintaining narra ...
This paper discusses the storytelling techniques of television drama, focusing on why two ‘similar’ television mini-series Damo(꿱캡, Woman Detective) and Chuno(股큰, Slave Chaser) could be definitely recognized as ‘dissimilar’ texts, maintaining narrative distance each other. As stories come to be accumulated in the archive of television drama, new stories available in television are decreasing. However, television drama genre makes use of narrative strategy for distinction among dramas, utilizing actively television drama archive.
Mini-series Damo and Chuno have similarities and differences in the contradictive relationship. These characteristics provide an important reference point for modelling television drama storytelling. Like the same story, Damo and Chuno are very similar in the deep structure, while these are differently shaped each other in the surface structure, making it difficult to see affinity between these two dramas. Considering the temporal distinction between Damo and Chuno, Chuno puts on a screen of indifference toward Damo as the storytelling technique so that an accumulated story is represented as an independent one.
Chuno erases a strong sense of dIJjĦ vu toward Damo with an optical illusion caused by difference of surface structure. First, the main plot of these dramas is "chasing somebody." However this central plot produces completely different dramatic circumstances. With a centrifugal force, Chuno’s chasing begins, while Damo’s chasing is under the centripetal force. Second, In Damo and Chuno, there are main characters suffered from structured violence of feudal society. According to their personality and role, main characters lie in the triangle or the inverted triangle relations. Third, although sharing rebellious discourse, these dramas take a conflicting attitude to revolution and love. Damo foregrounds love, while Chuno does revolution. In short, Chuno creates a new dramatic space-time by adjusting and correcting Damo. In other words, Chuno is an overwritten version of Damo.