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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BONG JOON HO

Call No: 81 BON HAN
Author: Han, Karen; Lowery, David
Edition: 2022
Place: New York
Publisher: Abrams
PubDate: 2023
PhysDes: 288 pages : illustrated ; 29 cm
Subject: BONG JOON HO
Summary: The first illustrated critical monograph of Academy Award–winning writer/director Bong Joon-ho, the visionary behind films such as Parasite, Snowpiercer, Okja, and The HostBrilliantly illustrated and designed by the London-based film magazine Little White Lies, Bong Joon-ho examines the career of the South Korean writer/director, who has been making critically acclaimed feature films for more than two decades. First breaking out into the international scene with festival-favorite Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), Bong then set his sights on the story of a real-life serial killer in 2003’s Memories of Murder and once again won strong international critical attention, winning Best Director at San Sebastian Film Festival. But it was 2006’s The Host that proved to be a huge breakout moment both for Bong and the Korean film industry. The big-budget monster movie, set in Seoul, premiered at Cannes and became an instant hit—South Korea’s widest release ever, setting new box office records and selling remake rights in the US to Universal. Bong’s next feature, Mother (2009) also premiered at Cannes, once again earning critical acclaim and appearing on many “best-of” lists for 2009/2010. But it was Bong’s first English-language film, Snowpiercer (2013)—set on a post-apocalyptic train where class divisions erupt into class warfare—that brought his work outside of the South Korean and film festival markets and onto the stage of global commercial cinema. After a short sidestep with 2017’s Okja, which became a center of controversy due to its being produced and released by Netflix, despite A. O. Scott calling it “a miracle of imagination and technique,” it was Bong’s 2019 black comedy/thriller Parasite that took his career to new heights, winning the Palme d’Or, with a unanimous vote, as well as Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. Parasite’s jarring shifts in tone—encompassing darkness, drama, slapstick, and black humor—and its unsubtle critiques of late capitalism and American imperialism are in conversation with Bong’s entire body of work, and this mid-career monograph will survey the entirety of that work, including his short films, to flesh out the stories behind the films with supporting analytical text and interviews with Bong’s key collaborators. The book also explores Bong’s rise in the cultural eye of the West, catching up readers with his career before his next masterpiece arrives. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781419758126

Call No: 409.5 NUL
Author: Nulman, Eugene
Edition: 2022
Place: Abingdon, Oxon, UK
Publisher: Routledge
PhysDes: 144 pages ; 25cm
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Subject: AVENGERS: ENDGAME (US, Anthony Russo/Joe Russo, 2019); ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (US, Quentin Tarantino, 2019); PARASITE [GISAENGCHUNG ] (KO, Bong Joon Ho, 2019); [NINETEEN SEVENTEEN] 1917 (UK/US, Sam Mendes, 2019); JOJO RABBIT (CZ/NZ/US, Taika Waititi, 2019); INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (US/G, Quentin Tarantino, 2009); COVID NINETEEN; TRUMP, DONALD
Summary: Using innovative interpretations of recent big budget films, Coronavirus Capitalism Goes to the Cinema interrogates the social, political and economic landscape during and prior to the COVID-19 crisis and provides lessons for advancing progressive politics in a post-pandemic age. By exploring numerous films including Avengers: Endgame, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, 1917, and Parasite, this short book provides a deep understanding about neoliberal society in a time of crisis. Facilitated by the ideas of Emma Goldman, Naomi Klein, Karl Marx, Noam Chomsky and many more, these movies are reinterpreted to point out our political blind spots, combat our non-COVID contagions and inoculate us into ideological herd immunity. From explorations of the supervillain-like decision-making of our political leaders to the inequalities in infection outcomes that sparked further Black Lives Matter protests, this book discusses the central social challenges we face today through the sights and sounds of some of the most beloved films of the very recent past. This entertaining and accessible book will reward readers who are interested in contemporary politics in the context of COVID-19, as well as cinephiles and movie-goers who want fresh interpretations of instant classics to help explain the world around them. More than just informative and amusing, this book is a call to action to those activists who want social change in the face of coronavirus capitalism. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781032002750
Contents: 1. Coronavirus Capitalism -- 2. The Pseudo-Superheroes -- 3. Medical Trench Warfare -- 4. Our Own Little Shitlers -- 5. If I Can’t Dance, It’s Not My Liberation -- 6. Fairy Tales and False Freedoms -- 7. The Great Equalizer -- 8. Macroparasites and Microaggressions -- 9. Fighting the Elements -- 10. I Can’t Breathe -- References -- Index

Call No: 81 BON NAM
Author: Lee, Nam
Source: US
Place: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: 2020
PhysDes: xix, 3 unnumbered pages, 207 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
Series: Global film directors
Subject: BONG JOON HO
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. -- publisher's website
Notes: Includes bibliographical reference (pages 191-200) and index.
ISBN: 9781978818903
Contents: Introduction -- 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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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: PARASITE [GISAENGCHUNG ] (KO, Bong Joon Ho, 2019)

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PhysDes: Clippings; Publicity
Subject: HOST, THE [GWOEMUL] (KO, Bong Joon Ho, 2006); HOST, THE [GWOEMUL] (KO, Bong Joon Ho, 2006)
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Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; HOST, THE [GWOEMUL] (K, Joon-ho Bong, 2006)
Author: Hall, Sandra
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: HOST, THE [GWOEMUL] (KO, Bong Joon Ho, 2006)
Summary: Review and looking at the impact of the Korean horror film of THE HOST
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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MOTHER [MADEO] (KO, Bong Joon Ho, 2009); MOTHER [MADEO] (KO, Bong Joon Ho, 2009)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: OKJA (KO/ US, Bong Joon Ho, 2017)

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PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: SNOWPIERCER (KO/CZ/US/FR, Bong Joon Ho, 2013)