The Role of Emotions in Korean Medical Series

Authors

  • Marion Poirson-Dechonne Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France

Keywords:

emotions, medical Korean TV series, empathy, passion, cinematographic apparatus

Abstract

Nowadays, viewers are deserting cinemas in favor of television platforms, whose production and viewing conditions are significantly different, particularly when it comes to the reception of series and the emotions they generate. The emotions produced by images vary according to the device through which they are viewed, and the television format itself can become an emotional trigger, as shown by research on reality TV or game shows, which play on empathy and the spectacular. In Korean medical series, one can distinguish three types: emotions towards and aroused by the doctor’s character, emotions  felt for the patients, and finally attempts to give these emotions a theoretical framework, as can be seen in The Good Doctor and Brain Works, which use  various devices to express or arouse them.

Author Biography

Marion Poirson-Dechonne, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France

MARION POIRSON-DECHONNE is an Emeritus Associate Professor in film studies at Paul Valéry University, Montpellier. She defended a thesis in arts and art sciences at Paris I under the supervision of Dominique Chateau, entitled Le théâtre dans le cinéma. She has published over 80 articles and coordinated 4 issues of Cinémaction, Portraits de famille, Le cinéma russe, de la perestroïka à nos jours, L'écran poétique and Jeu vidéo et cinéma, une création interactive, as well as the proceedings of the Cinéma et poésie symposium with Catherine Soulier. She is the author of Le cinéma est-il iconoclaste? Entre spiritualité et laïcité, la tentation iconoclaste du cinéma, Le Mystère Starewitch and Ladislas Starewitch, le magicien des marionnettes, and has published novels and two artist’s books with visual artist Carine Fourment-Hullo.

Published

2025-01-19

How to Cite

Poirson-Dechonne, M. (2025). The Role of Emotions in Korean Medical Series. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai - Dramatica, 69(2), 155–175. Retrieved from https://dramatica.ro/index.php/j/article/view/327