and pansori, technology and body, foreign and local, and artificial and natural, arguing that the film's simple narrative further emphasizes "the tension between the modern and the traditional (...) [with] the modern [as a] threat to the traditional art, culture, sprits, and values". Choi Chung-moo examined the film's politics of gender and body, reading Yu-bong's violence towards Song-hwa and Dong-ho as well as the alluded incest and rape of Yu-bong towards Song-hwa as response to the "deprivation of national identity and loss of masculinity by inflicting violence on colonized indigenous woman or onto the emasculated self". Accolades References Bibliography Adam Hartzell's review at koreanfilm.org Related Links Pansori Chunhyangga Simcheongga Music of Korea Korean Culture Arirang Korean Wave Chunhyang (2000 film) External links 1993 films 1990s musical drama films South Korean historical drama films South Korean musical drama films Films about music and musicians Films about blind people Films set in the 1960s Films based on Korean novels Films directed by Im Kwon-taek Best Picture Blue Dragon Film Award winners Best Picture Grand Bell Award winners 1990s Korean-language films 1993 drama films