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1 online resource (xix, 206 pages) : illustrations. |
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Filmography |
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Global film directors
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| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 21, 2020). |
| Summary |
"Bong Joon Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with 2006's monster movie The Host and whose forays into English-language film with Snowpiercer (2013) and Okja (2017) brought him further recognition. As this timely book reveals, even as Bong Joon Ho has emerged as an internationally known director, his films still engage with distinctly Korean social and political contexts that may elude many Western viewers. The Films of Bong Joon Ho demonstrates how he hybridizes Hollywood conventions with local realities in order to create a cinema that foregrounds the absurd cultural anomie Koreans have experienced in tandem with their rapid economic development. Film critic and scholar Nam Lee explores how Bong subverts the structures of the genres he works within, from the crime thriller to the sci-fi film, in order to be truthful to Korean realities that often deny the reassurances of the happy Hollywood ending. With detailed readings of Bong's films from Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) through Parasite (2019), the book will give readers a new appreciation of this world-class cinematic talent."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| Contents |
A new cultural generation -- Cinematic "perversions" : tonal shifts, visual gags, and techniques of defamiliarization -- Social bujoris and the "narratives of failure" : transnational genre and local politics in Memories of murder and The host -- Monsters within : moral ambiguity and anomie in Barking dogs never bite and Mother -- Beyond the local : global politics and neoliberal capitalism in Snowpiercer and Okja -- Conclusion: Parasite, a new beginning? |
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Pong, Chun-ho, 1969- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pong, Chun-ho, 1969- (OCoLC)fst01619714
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Korea (South)
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Motion pictures -- Korea (South) -- History.
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Motion picture producers and directors. (OCoLC)fst01027225
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Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
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Korea (South) (OCoLC)fst01206791
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781978818910 1978818912 9781978818903 1978818904 (DLC) 2020004583 (OCoLC)1139622390 |
| ISBN |
9781978818927 electronic book |
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1978818920 electronic book |
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9781978818941 electronic book |
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1978818947 electronic book |
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