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Author:   Nam Lee
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.003kg
ISBN:  

9781978818903

ISBN 10:   1978818904
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   29 September 2020
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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For the legions of new fans of Bong Joon-ho, this timely book will demonstrate that the triumph of Parasite in the west was no fluke. Nam Lee demonstrates in loving detail just how Bong has managed over a two decade-long career of unprecedented critical and commercial success to condemn and critique contemporary society through the lens of satire, humor and sheer entertainment. It's hard to think of a director better able to address both Korean controversies and universal anxieties and a writer better able to explicate these concerns. --David Desser founding editor, the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema The Films of Bong Joon-ho is at once a path-breaking study of the director Bong Joon-ho--one of the most recognized and internationally acclaimed filmmakers currently active in South Korea--and his films and simultaneously a study of how the post-1987 South Korean film industry came into being. Drawing upon her own rich experience as a former staff writer and film critic in South Korea and with judicious use of relevant critical theories, Lee offers us both the larger sociopolitical, historical, and cultural context of Bong's films as well as detailed analyses of a set of films, both critically received and commercially successful ones as well as relatively unknown earlier short films. This book is a great service not only to the fans of Bong but also to the general public who are interested in films of South Korea, as well as to the scholarly community of film studies and Korean studies. --Namhee Lee University of California, Los Angeles

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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.

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