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OverviewSuccessful 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph Jonghyun JeonPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780252046483ISBN 10: 025204648 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 19 November 2024 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviews“Inventive and engaging, with elegant and grounded analyses of Bong’s oeuvre. While there are other English-language volumes now devoted to the director, Jeon’s multifaceted account of the relationship between Korea’s modern history and the trajectory of Bong’s traversal of genres, modes, and production practices yields remarkable insight.” --Michelle Cho, University of Toronto Author InformationJoseph 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |