In this informal talk, we will explore together what I would like to call "not-so-visible" genealogy of the New Korean Cinema, using Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning film Parasite as a prime example, but also with references to other significant titles, if possible. This genealogy illuminates the ways in which South Korea as a nation and culture has coped with modernity in its colonial and postcolonial forms, including the supposedly hegemonic influence of the American culture (including what Christina Klein designated as "Cold War Orientalism"). Through a cursory examination of the self-reflexive positionality of major directors such as Bong and Park Chan-wook in the global network of cultural exchange as well as of select filmic texts, I would like to challenge and critique the very Orientalism embedded in the conception of South Korean cinema as "oppressed" or "dominated" by the (allegedly) cosmopolitan, universal and/or hegemonic cultural expressions from former and current empires such as Japan and the US. —Kyu Hyun Kim
Topic: Kyu Hyun Kim, “Bong Joon-ho's Parasite and the Not-So-Visible (But-Not-Quite-Secret) Genealogy of the New Korean Cinema”
Time: Mar 28, 2022 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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