The Films of Bong Joon Ho / / Nam Lee.

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 ach...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Global Film Directors
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.) :; 10 color photos, 1 b-w illustration
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 • A NEW CULTURAL GENERATION
  • 2 • CINEMATIC “PERVERSIONS” Tonal Shifts, Visual Gags, and Techniques of Defamiliarization
  • 3 • SOCIAL PUJORIS AND THE “NARRATIVES OF FAILURE” Transnational Genre and Local Politics in Memories of Murder and The Host
  • 4 • MONSTERS WITHIN Moral Ambiguity and Anomie in Barking Dogs Never Bite and Mother
  • 5 • BEYOND THE LOCAL Global Politics and Neoliberal Capitalism in Snowpiercer and Okja
  • CONCLUSION Parasite—A New Beginning?
  • FILMOGRAPHY
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR