BONG JOON HO

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