Bong Joon Ho(English, Paperback, Jeon Joseph Jonghyun)

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Bong Joon Ho(English, Paperback, Jeon Joseph Jonghyun) is written by Jeon Joseph Jonghyun and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252088573 (ISBN 10) and 9780252088575 (ISBN 13).

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.