Bong Joon Ho: Filmmaker and Philosopher - Anthony Curtis Adler

'Bong Joon Ho: Filmmaker and Philosopher' by Anthony Curtis Adler (Bloomsbury Academic 344-page paperback)

While scholars and critics have long appreciated Bong Joon-ho's penetrating critique of Korean society and global capitalism, this book presents the first cohesive philosophical analysis of his first seven feature-length films. It argues that Bong's cinema not only engages with philosophy, but is radically philosophical.

Writing as an intimate outsider to Korea, a “resident alien” married into a Korean family, and teaching at Bong's own alma mater, Anthony Curtis Adler explores Bong's visionary and re-visionary treatment of spatiality, temporality, myth, memory, genre, and the semiotics of monstrosity.