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"Successful cult films like The Host> and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Ho's enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph Jonghyun Jeon provides a consideration of the director's entire career and the themes, ambitions, techniques, and preoccupations that infuse his works. As Jeon shows, Bong's sense of spatial and temporal dislocations creates a hall of mirrors that challenges us to answer the parallel questions Where are we? and When are we? Jeon also traces Bong's oeuvre from its early focus on Korea's US-fueled modernization to examining the entanglements of globalization in Mother and his subsequent films. A complete filmography and in-depth interview with the director round out the book. Insightful and engaging, Bong Joon Ho offers an up-to-date analysis of the genre-bending international director"--
List of contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Romanization
Global Entanglements
Increments of Modernity:
Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) and
Memories of Murder (2003)
Parenting Fails:
The Host (2006) and
Mother (2009)
Fantasies of Escape (Outside):
Snowpiercer (2013) and
Okja (2017)
Fantasies of Escape (Inside):
Parasite (2019)
Coda: Mise en mondial
An Interview with Bong Joon Ho
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon is a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of
Vicious Circuits: Korea's IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century.
