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Parasite.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten
Other Authors: Stamatellos, Giannis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2022.
Series:Value Inquiry Book Ser.
Table of Contents:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Plot
  • 2 Neoliberalism and the Postmodern Situation
  • References
  • Chapter 1 Parasitism beyond Ethics
  • 1 Upstairs, Downstairs Korean Version
  • 2 The Good and the Bad
  • 3 Parasite Lost
  • 4 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 2 The Paradoxical Universal of Korean Cinema
  • 1 The Meaning of Parasite
  • 2 Parasites and Divided Sympathies
  • 3 The Metaphor Is the Medium
  • 4 Conclusion
  • References.
  • Chapter 3 Parasite from Text to Context: An Ethical Stalemate and New Auteurism in Global Cinema
  • 1 The Evolution of Korean Films with '10-Million Viewers'
  • 2 The Absence of Bong Joon-ho's Political Fantasy
  • 3 The Ethical Double Bind and the Ghostly Parasite
  • 4 New Auteurism and New Cinephilia
  • 5 Performative Self-Contradiction of Global Cinema
  • References
  • Chapter 4 From Superfluous to Parasitic: Russian Literature, Arendt and Korean Modernity
  • 1 Kim Ki-taek and Ki-woo as Superfluous Men
  • 2 Confucianism and Superfluity
  • 3 Superfluity and Love
  • 4 Morse Code and Toilet Texts.
  • 5 Totalitarianism and Homelessness
  • 6 Conclusion: Becoming a Parasite
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Notes from the (Korean) Underground: Being-in-the-World Is Being-a-Parasite
  • 1 Motifs in Parasite
  • 1.1 Parasitism
  • 1.2 The "Scholars Rock"
  • 1.3 Crossing the Line
  • 1.4 Smell
  • 1.5 Metaphor
  • 1.6 The Plan
  • 1.7 The Meaning of Parasite
  • 2 Parasite Not a Moral or Political Film
  • 3 A Phenomenology of the Mundane Fantasy Existence of Nietzsche's "Last Man"
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Mice and Cockroaches: Parasite through Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
  • 1 Hierarchies and Resentment.
  • 2 Physical and Moral Undergrounds
  • 3 Smells and Lines
  • 4 Animals and Underground Psyches
  • 5 Endings
  • References
  • Chapter 7 Planning Not to Plan: The Fantasy and Failure of Underclass Solidarity in Parasite
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Art and Profession of Sponging
  • 3 Toward a Psychology of Parasitism
  • 4 The Failure to Achieve Class-Based Solidarity
  • 5 The Replacements
  • References
  • Chapter 8 Bong Joon Ho's Parasite Viewed in the Context of Pasolini's Theorem and Deleuze's Filmic Theories
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Theorem Proving and Problem-Solving in Theorem and Parasite.
  • 3 The Origins and Theoretical Basis of Deleuze's Filmic Theories
  • 4 Returning to Parasite
  • 5 Comparison between Parasite and Theorem
  • 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 9 From Parasites to Monsters: The Unfulfilled Promises of Serres' Parasitism in Bong Joon-ho's Neoliberal Social Allegories
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 A City Rat, a Country Rat, and the Parasited Feast: Serres' Fable in Bong's Film
  • 3 From the Parasitic to the Monstrous: A Noise at the Door, a Bunker, and the Monster
  • 4 The Self-Destructive Murder and Its Parasitic Illogic
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References.

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