Bong Joon Ho |
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| Author:
| Jeon, Joseph Jonghyun |
| Series title: | Contemporary Film Directors Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-04648-3 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2024 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionSuccessful 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.