Recently, deviant and subverted narrative have been produced in various TV drama genres, centering women at the core of narrative, which puts women at the core of narrative, reflects the female gaze, and confronts with patriarchal culture. This means ...
Recently, deviant and subverted narrative have been produced in various TV drama genres, centering women at the core of narrative, which puts women at the core of narrative, reflects the female gaze, and confronts with patriarchal culture. This means the change of gender politics which centered on the masculinity and narrative strategy based on male desire as shown in dramas in the past. This study attempts to investigate the change of dynamics of gender in man-woman relationship in the family drama, which conveys patriarchal discourse in the most powerful fashion. In doing it, I conducted textual analysis and audience survey on <Famous Princesses> broadcasted on KBS 2. Firstly, the reponses in the survey with 290 woman audience showed that the audience were satisfied with the general content and representation of female characters to some extent, and that they felt hostile toward some patriarchal elements. However, from the feminism perspective, despite the reflection of feminine stance in the drama they were not surely positive about the text. Further, there was no difference in reading depending on audience's age and occupation and on whether they were married or not. This fact casts doubt on audience's diversity and autonomy which has been emphasized in active audience theory. On the other hand, textual analysis based on feminist psychoanalytic theory proved that <Famous Princesses> actively produced the narrative related to female oedipal trajectory and female bonding, even though the drama was constrained within some limitation as a family drama. The drama belongs to a narrative form competing against male oedipal trajectory, in that the four sisters facing various reality lived their active, independent life and realized their female identity rather than resting on males as the cinderella story tells. Finally, the drama denies the traditional narrative convention that the inter-female relationship has been formed primarily around males. Instead, the drama recovers inter-female system of the suture, which was lost within male order and 'le symbolique', through inter-female bonding centering on mother-daughter relationship and sisterhood, and thus suggests the possibility of alternative l'?criture f?minine in drama.