일시: 12월 11일 (수) 오후 4:00 - 5:30                  

장소: 서울대학교 64동 (IBK커뮤니케이션센터) 501호 

강연자: Joseph Jonghyun Jeon

 

제목: Global Entanglements: Bong Joon Ho's Cinematic Geographies

 

내용: 

This talk is a retrospective examination of the entire body of work of the renowned South Korean film director, Bong Joon Ho, looking specifically at the way in which his films thematize social entanglements at various scales. The scalar focus in these treatments ranges from the micro to macro, from the local idiosyncrasies of a Korean apartment complex in which neighbors get on each other’s nerves to global systems of commerce and exchange in which multinational corporations compete in increasingly cut-throat markets. We may think of Bong Joon Ho’s body of work as offering a capacious geography that spatializes in film the complex web of social entanglements that shape life in the 21st century, and all this from the perspective of late capitalist South Korea, which turns out to offer special insight into our contemporary historical moment.

 

강연자 소개: 

Joseph Jonghyun Jeon is Director of the Center for Critical Korean Studies and Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, with appointments in Asian American Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Culture and Theory. He is the author of Racial Things, Racial Forms: Objecthood in Avant-Garde Asian American Poetry(Iowa, 2012); Vicious Circuits: Korea’s IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century (Stanford, 2019); and Bong Joon Ho: Global Entanglements (Illinois, 2024). His work has been published in Critical Inquiry, Representations, Cinema Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, and positions. He was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated with his family to the United States as a young child.