This thesis is to study on the use and meaning of a motion picture as a motif or a subject matter in a novel after 90s. After 90s, one of distinctive features in the novel is that the image media like movie and television were frequently appeared as a motif or an essential material for the genre. It is an interesting feature that most novels after the 90s frequently created a significant number of characters who watched, is watching, or will be watching TV or movie in the content. Moreover, incidents or events in a novel occurred by those image media. Some scenes in TV or movie are also occasionally adopted. The selection and choice of a subject matter is a result of a writer`s careful attention and cognition. Therefore the multiple use of a motion picture in a recent novel proves a growing interest in a visual media, and awareness of their new significance. Also the use of visual media signifies a tactics to gain popularity while applying the public`s interest in TV and motional picture. These features prove that the novel and motion picture were overturned their roles in which they had provided essential motifs each other, or underwent to equal positions. Now a film is a new stimulus and an essential nutriment for a novel that has to create new stories continually. The use of visual media as a subject matter or motif in a novel presents that the relationship between novel and motion picture legitimately becomes a crucial participant to take a part in a story-telling while overcoming their simple level of borrowing techniques.