The Films of Bong Joon Ho

Download or read book The Films of Bong Joon Ho written by Nam Lee and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?