A Uniquely Transnational Style: Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder and The Host

What is it about?

This paper analyses how South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho hybridizes South Korean and Western cinemas - culturally, politically, and visually. The primary focus of this paper is on two of the directors earlier films Memories of Murder and The Host, it fills a gap in the research of how these two national cinemas intersect through the works of Bong.

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