Joseph Jonghyun Jeon

Bong Joon Ho

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Contemporary Film Directors
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9780252088575
• ISBN-10: 0252088573
• Artikelnr.: 70733499

Autorenporträt

Joseph Jonghyun Jeon

Inhaltsangabe

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