<div dir="ltr"><div>[Apologies for cross-posting]</div><div><br></div><div>Dear Koreanists,</div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail-d2edcug0 gmail-hpfvmrgz gmail-qv66sw1b gmail-c1et5uql gmail-oi732d6d gmail-ik7dh3pa gmail-ht8s03o8 gmail-a8c37x1j gmail-keod5gw0 gmail-nxhoafnm gmail-aigsh9s9 gmail-d3f4x2em gmail-fe6kdd0r gmail-mau55g9w gmail-c8b282yb gmail-iv3no6db gmail-jq4qci2q gmail-a3bd9o3v gmail-b1v8xokw gmail-oo9gr5id gmail-hzawbc8m" dir="auto">I'm
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dimensions of Parasite and Bong's status as global auteur for Harvard's
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In and Around Parasite: Two Tracks to the Construction of Bong Joon-ho as Global Auteur </h1>
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<h2 class="gmail-field-label">Date: </h2><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item even"><span class="gmail-date-display-single">Thursday, October 14, 2021, <span class="gmail-date-display-start">4:30pm</span> to <span class="gmail-date-display-end">6:00pm</span> </span></div></div><h2 class="gmail-field-label">Location: </h2><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item even">Online (Zoom)</div></div></div></div></div><span class="gmail-d2edcug0 gmail-hpfvmrgz gmail-qv66sw1b gmail-c1et5uql gmail-oi732d6d gmail-ik7dh3pa gmail-ht8s03o8 gmail-a8c37x1j gmail-keod5gw0 gmail-nxhoafnm gmail-aigsh9s9 gmail-d3f4x2em gmail-fe6kdd0r gmail-mau55g9w gmail-c8b282yb gmail-iv3no6db gmail-jq4qci2q gmail-a3bd9o3v gmail-b1v8xokw gmail-oo9gr5id gmail-hzawbc8m" dir="auto"></span></div><div><p>
<strong>Jihoon Kim</strong><br>Associate Professor of Cinema and Media
Studies, Chung-ang University; Visiting Scholar in Film and Media
Studies Program, Columbia University
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<span>Jihoon Kim is associate professor of cinema and media studies at
Chung-ang University, and currently a visiting scholar in the Film and
Media Studies program at Columbia University. He is the author of <i>Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary</i> (forthcoming in Oxford UP, 2022) and <i>Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-media Age</i> (Bloomsbury, 2018/16). He is also finalizing <i>Post-verité Turns: Korean Documentary Cinema in the 21st Century</i>,
the first-ever English-written scholarly monograph on the Korean
nonfiction film and video in the private sectors since the 1980s.</span>
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<span>Chaired by <strong>Alexander Zahlten</strong>, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University </span>
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<span><strong>Abstract:</strong><br>This talk investigates the unprecedented success of <i>Parasite</i> (2019) and Bong Joon-ho’s rise as globally reclaimed film director through the method of ‘two-track approach.’ </span><span>Its
first part develops the orthodox auteur criticism to unveil the film’s
textual operations and Bong’s directorial control while the second takes
a revisionist approach to film authorship to highlight the roles of
industrial agents in elevating Bong as a celebrity in his involvement in
the ‘Oscar race.’ Each part also argues that Bong’s status as global
auteur is not constrained within either the classical auteur criticism
or the revisionist reconfiguration of authorship: the first part
explains the film’s construction of multiple entry points for viewers’
various interpretations, and the second tracks the film’s transnational
or transcultural traffic and the social media hype of Bong as celebrity,
including the hashtag #BongHive, in contemporary ‘convergence culture’
where the old cinephile culture and the new cinephile collide.</span>
</p><span class="gmail-d2edcug0 gmail-hpfvmrgz gmail-qv66sw1b gmail-c1et5uql gmail-oi732d6d gmail-ik7dh3pa gmail-ht8s03o8 gmail-a8c37x1j gmail-keod5gw0 gmail-nxhoafnm gmail-aigsh9s9 gmail-d3f4x2em gmail-fe6kdd0r gmail-mau55g9w gmail-c8b282yb gmail-iv3no6db gmail-jq4qci2q gmail-a3bd9o3v gmail-b1v8xokw gmail-oo9gr5id gmail-hzawbc8m" dir="auto"></span></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Jihoon Kim, Ph.D<br><b><i>Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary </i></b>(Oxford University Press, forthcoming in Feb 2022).</div><div><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/documentarys-expanded-fields-9780197603826?prevSortField=1&sortField=8&resultsPerPage=20&lang=en&cc=us" target="_blank">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/documentarys-expanded-fields-9780197603826?prevSortField=1&sortField=8&resultsPerPage=20&lang=en&cc=us</a><br></div><div><b><i>Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-media Age</i></b><b> </b>(Bloomsbury Academic, 2018/16).<i> </i><br><a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/between-film-video-and-the-digital-9781628922912/" target="_blank">http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/between-film-video-and-the-digital-9781628922912/</a><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div>Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Film and Media Studies, Columbia University<br>Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies<br>Department of Film Studies<br>Chung-ang University<br></div><div>website: <a href="http://chungang.academia.edu/JKIM" target="_blank">chungang.academia.edu/JKIM</a><br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>