[KS] In and Out of Parasite: Harvard's Kim Koo Forum on Oct 14(Thu)

[Ji-hoon Felix Kim]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear Koreanists,

I'm honored to give my Zoom talk on the textual and extra-textual
dimensions of Parasite and Bong's status as global auteur for Harvard's Kim
Koo Forum at 16:30 (EST) on Oct 14 (Thu).
Registration link can be found below:

https://korea.fas.harvard.edu/event/and-around-parasite-two-tracks-construction-bong-joon-ho-global-auteur?fbclid=IwAR129OM0k1u1IgtPXRXBdHkJMMUmR5icC2W1_R4wz4t_f9_xOt1V5W6v3Ik


In and Around Parasite: Two Tracks to the Construction of Bong Joon-ho as
Global Auteur
Date:
Thursday, October 14, 2021, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Online (Zoom)

*Jihoon Kim*
Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Chung-ang University;
Visiting Scholar in Film and Media Studies Program, Columbia University

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 *Documentary’s Expanded
Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary* (forthcoming in
Oxford UP, 2022) and *Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving
Images in the Post-media Age* (Bloomsbury, 2018/16). He is also
finalizing *Post-verité
Turns: Korean Documentary Cinema in the 21st Century*, the first-ever
English-written scholarly monograph on the Korean nonfiction film and video
in the private sectors since the 1980s.

Chaired by *Alexander Zahlten*, Professor of East Asian Languages and
Civilizations, Harvard University

*Abstract:*
This talk investigates the unprecedented success of *Parasite* (2019) and
Bong Joon-ho’s rise as globally reclaimed film director through the method
of ‘two-track approach.’ 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.
Jihoon Kim, Ph.D
*Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century
Documentary *(Oxford University Press, forthcoming in Feb 2022).
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/documentarys-expanded-fields-9780197603826?prevSortField=1&sortField=8&resultsPerPage=20&lang=en&cc=us
*Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the
Post-media Age* (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018/16).
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/between-film-video-and-the-digital-9781628922912/

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Film and Media Studies, Columbia University
Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Department of Film Studies
Chung-ang University
website: chungang.academia.edu/JKIM
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