"Around 'Parasite': Political and Ethical Impasses in Global Korean Cinema"
Seung-hoon Jeong (California State University, Long Beach)
Friday, April 3rd, 4pm, Herter Hall room 217
In this talk, Prof. Jeong will discuss a range of concepts brought to the fore in Korean Global cinema, in particular as made famous by Park Chan-Wook and Bong Joon-Ho and other filmmakers of the "386" generation who protested the Korean dictatorship in the 1980s.
The lecture will be followed by a roundtable discussion of contemporary global Korean cinema. Participants are encouraged to watch Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho), No Other Choice (Park Chan-Wook), but also other titles such as Mickey 17 (Bong), Oldboy (Park), or Burning (Lee Chang Dong), and more.
Participants to the roundtable are warmly invited to read Prof. Jeong's articles, accessible for free under the following links:
Participants to the roundtable are warmly invited to read Prof. Jeong's articles, accessible for free under the following links:
Seung-hoon Jeong is Associate Professor at California State University, Long Beach, and the author of acclaimed books 'Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory after New Media (Routledge, 2013) and Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2023), as well as the coeditor of several more volumes, including The Global Auteur (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology (Routledge, 2021).
Refreshments and Korean snacks will be served.