Beyond The Years – DVD Inside Spread
The film 천년학 (Beyond the Years) tells the tale of an adopted youth 동호 (Dong-ho). He falls in love with his sister, 송화 (Song-hwa) who is also adopted. Both Dong-ho and Song-hwa are taught the Korean traditional performance style of p’ansori. P’ansori is one of the National Intangible Cultural Properties in Korean culture. It is described as musical story-telling accompanied by a drummer.
For more information about pansori:
- Voices from the straw mat : toward an ethnography of Korean story singing by Chan E. Park ( Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, 2003)
- Music in Korea : experiencing music, expressing culture by Donna Lee Kwon ( New York : Oxford University Press, 2012)
- P’ansori : an indigenous theater of Korea by Woo Ok Kim ( Ph. D. New York University, 1980)
- OSUL blog post about P’ansori- From Our Shelves: Resources on P’ansori
천년학 (Beyond the Years) is based on a novel – Wanderer of Seonghok-dong, written by author 이청준 (Yi Chong-jun) . Yi Chong-jun is a prolific writer with 5 awards for his literary work. Three of his novels are available in OSUL:
- The Wounded by Yi Chong-jun and Jennifer M Lee (Seoul : Jimoondang Publisher Co., 2002)
- The prophet and other stories by Yi Chong-jun, Julie Pickering, and Cornell University East Asia Program (Ithaca, N.Y. : East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1999)
- Seopyeonje : the southerners’ song by Yi Chong-jun (London ; Chicago : Peter Owen, 2011)
For more information about 천년학 (Beyond the Years):
- 이청주 소설의 영상화 과정의 과정의 생성원리로 작용하는 원형적 신화 상상력에 대한 연구
– 영화 〈서편제〉〈축제〉〈밀양〉〈천년학〉을 대상으로 by 표정옥 (Xijiang humanities FORUM 25 series, June 2009, 265-287) – Plot analysis for several movies with emphasis on Seopyonje and Beyond the years - [영화(2)] 임권택 감독의『천년학』 도덕적 예술을 향한‘아버지의 꿈’ by 박유희 (Performances and review 57th, August 2007, 177-184) – Movie review for Beyond the Years and the movie’s interpretation of a father’s hopes towards their children in typical Korean families.
