{"product_id":"bong-joon-ho-anthony-curtis-adler-9781350414655","title":"Bong Joon Ho: Philosopher and Filmmaker","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnthony 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing out the philosophical depth of a visionary auteur, Adler brings us on a journey into a unique cinematic world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Curtis Adler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350414654\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350414655\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.43w x 1.00d","brand":"Anthony Curtis Adler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001387303167,"sku":"9781350414655","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4afef9dd-cb75-45e7-a1bd-84b208383026.jpg?v=1751600922","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bong-joon-ho-anthony-curtis-adler-9781350414655","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}