Films of Bong Joon Ho

This timely book reveals that even as Bong Joon Ho has emerged as a major global auteur with works like Snowpiercer (2013) and the Oscar®-award winning Parasite (2019), his films hybridize Hollywood conventions with local realities in order to engage with distinctly Korean social and political contexts that may elude many Western viewers.

List of contents

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1        A New Cultural Generation                                              
Chapter 2        Cinematic “Perversions”: Tonal Shifts, Visual Gags and Techniques of Defamiliarization                                                                Chapter 3        Social Pujoris and the “Narratives of Failure”: Transnational Genre and Local Politics in Memories of Murder and The Host
Chapter 4        Monsters Within: Moral Ambiguity and Anomie in Barking Dogs Never Bite and Mother            
Chapter 5        Beyond the Local: Global Politics and Neoliberal Capitalism in Snowpiercer and Okja
Conclusion: Parasite, A New Beginning?                                                                                  
Filmography
Bibliography                                                                                                                                       
Index    

About the author

NAM LEE is an associate professor of film studies in the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University in Orange, California. Formerly a film critic and journalist in South Korea, she has published numerous film reviews as well as academic journal articles and book chapters on Korean cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Lee, Nam Lee
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781978818903
• ISBN: 978-1-978818-90-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Global Film Directors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, Asiatische Geschichte, Korea, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, HISTORY / Asia / Korea