Nam Lee

The Films of Bong Joon Ho

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9781978818903
• ISBN-10: 1978818904
• Artikelnr.: 58737772

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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