Bong Joon Ho

Philosopher and Filmmaker

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by Anthony Curtis Adler

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Bong Joon-ho

Keywords

Bong Joon Ho, director, philosophy

Publishing date

2025 (December 11, 2025)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Collection

Philosophical Filmmakers

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 240 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-350-41466-2

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Book Presentation:
With the release of Parasite (2019), recipient of the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Picture, South Korean director, Bong Joon Ho, secured his place as one of his generation's leading filmmakers. Yet while scholars and critics have long appreciated his penetrating critique of Korean society and global capitalism, his oeuvre has not been considered from a philosophical perspective. This book argues that his cinema is philosophical and in a radical and original rather than derivative sense.

Anthony Curtis Adler explores Bong's assertion that Western philosophy is itself a “cinematic apparatus.” He claims philosophy anticipates cinema's technical and expressive means and cinema in turn possesses an extraordinary capacity to criticize philosophy from within. Focusing on the interaction of three closely linked philosophical-cinematic apparatuses used by Bong (the projection of visionary spaces, self-domestication and human life itself as a drama), this book features close readings of his seven feature-length films.

Drawing out the philosophical depth of a visionary auteur, Adler brings us on a journey into a unique cinematic world.

About the Author:
Costica Bradatan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author or editor of several books, and his work has been translated into many languages, including Dutch, German, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Farsi. Bradatan writes regularly for such publications as the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Aeon, Dissent, and The New Statesman, and serves as the Religion/Comparative Studies Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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