The Evolution of the Monstrous: An Interview with Bong Joon-ho

Film Matters ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Angelique Acuna ◽  
Joseph Lee ◽  
Din Dinso
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Academy Award

Academy award-winning Director Bong Joon-ho has captivated the global audience with compelling takes on the concept of the monstrous. From his earliest film, Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), to his most recent Best Picture Winner Parasite (2019), each of his films explores personal and intimate experiences in monstrous societies. Bong Joon-ho speaks about his most personal works while examining his success of The Host (2006) and how this shifted perspectives on the monster movie genre in South Korea. Additionally, Bong discusses his creative process and future works with upcoming adaptations of his beloved films.

scholarly journals Indigenous Water Rights in Comparative Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-402
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Macpherson
Keyword(s):  
Human Population ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Poor Management

At the end of the 2015 Academy Award-winning film The Big Short, which explores the origins of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, a caption notes that the Wall Street investor protagonist of the film who predicted the collapse of the United States (US) housing market would now be ‘focused on one commodity: water’. Water is sometimes described in popular culture as ‘the new oil’ or ‘more valuable than gold’. It is predicted to be the subject of increasing uncertainty, competition, conflict, and even war, as increasing demand from a growing human population and development meets reduced supply as a result of poor management, overuse, and climate change.

Disability Portrayal in Film: Reflecting the Past, Directing the Future

1998 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Safran
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Special Education Professionals ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
Influence Perceptions

Going to the movies and viewing videos are very popular forms of entertainment. Cinematic stories and characters influence perceptions and opinions of many viewers. Studying film depictions, therefore, provides a unique perspective on society's views of individuals with disabilities. The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate trends in Academy Award winning films that portray persons with disabilities. Over the decades, there have been an increasing number of awards involving “disability” movies; psychiatric disorders have been most frequently portrayed. Only two of the motion pictures identified presented children or youth with impairments, while none featured learning disabilities. Implications for special education professionals, with particular emphasis on using films for instructional purposes, are discussed.

Serengeti Shall Not Die

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-144
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Lekan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Cattle Grazing ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
International Conventions

This chapter explores the politics of scientific knowledge and visual representation of savanna environments in Bernhard and Michael Grzimek’s bestselling book and Academy Award–winning documentary film, Serengeti Shall Not Die (1959). It shows how the Grzimeks used their iconic airplane, nicknamed the “Flying Zebra,” to conduct ecological reconnaissance and employ aerial filmography. They depicted the Serengeti as an untouched ecosystem and a global heritage of mankind, despite its history of pastoralist land use and as a battleground between contending German and British imperial forces. Following international conventions established in London in 1933, the Grzimeks insisted that the Serengeti should encompass the entire habitat of migrating wildebeest—and not, as some officials in the Tanganyika Territory insisted, be divided to accommodate the local Maasai people’s customary cattle grazing. The Grzimeks failed to stop the redrawing of the park’s boundaries, partly because the airborne camera never expunged the Serengeti’s “ghosts of land use past.”

Mathematics in the Age of Jane Austen: Essential Skills of 1800

2000 ◽  
Vol 93 (8) ◽  
pp. 670-679
Author(s):  
S. I. B. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Meal ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
Essential Skills ◽  
Sense And Sensibility

THE ACADEMY AWARD–WINNING MOVIE Sense and Sensibility presented a wonderful vision of life in early nineteenth-century England. In the absence of television, radio, movies, and videos, families sought entertainment in a manner far different from today's. The Dashwood girls—Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret—filled their days with visiting, reading, practicing the pianoforte, needleworking, and letter writing, not to mention gossiping and matchmaking. Long days were highlighted by a wonderfully relaxed midday family meal, during which conversation was paramount. Above all, Jane Austen portrays a concern for the thoughts and feelings of one's immediate acquaintances and pride in one's village.

Artful Dogma: The Immaculate Conception and Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette

2012 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Ann W. Astell
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Immaculate Conception ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Nazi Persecution ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
Marian Apparitions

An international bestseller when it first appeared in 1941 and the inspiration for an Academy-award winning film, Franz Werfel's historical novel The Song of Bernadette has received surprisingly little critical attention. Written against the background of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, the Song chronicles the Marian apparitions at Lourdes, France, in 1858 and the life of the young visionary, Bernadette Soubirous. A once-celebrated émigré writer, Werfel identified himself as both Jewish and Christian. His Song of Bernadette deserves recognition not only as a masterpiece of realistic hagiography, but also as a complex philosophical and theological commentary on modernism and Judeo-Christianity.

scholarly journals CREATIVITY IN FILM TAGLINES

1970 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-125
Author(s):  
Olga Vladimir Panić Kavgić ◽  
Aleksandar Kavgić
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
The Past ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
Schindler's List

The paper deals with taglines associated with US Academy Award winning films and nominees in the period between 1990 and 2018. The list of taglines was compiled based on the database of winners and nominees in the category of Best Picture over the past 29 years. Preceded by a theoretical – linguistic and cinematic – discussion of taglines as memorable dramatic phrases and advertising devices whose aim is to attract audiences by echoing the tone and essence of the films they represent (e.g. “The List is Life.” from Schindler’s List, or “Trapped. Hunted. Surrounded. Survive”, from Dunkirk), the selected taglines are classified based on extralinguistic and textual factors, and mechanisms of linguistic creativity at the phonological, graphemic-orthographic, lexico-semantic and syntactic levels and sublevels. It is expected that exploiting noun phrases or simple memorable sentences containing elements of language creativity, achieved by wordplay, figures of speech and/or phonological means, and aided by various socio-cultural references, will prove to be the most frequent and productive formula for forming a successful tagline. The methodology employed in this research is qualitative – the analysis is carried out by means of discussing and exemplifying various patterns of film tagline formation at the aforementioned extralinguistic, textual and linguistic levels.

scholarly journals Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain: Divulgence of Characters

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Arindam Patra
Keyword(s):  
Young Lady ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Academy Award

British Guardian Prize winner and thrice nominated for Booker Prize, famous Indian novelist writing in English Anita Desai’s Sahitya Academy Award winning one of the masterpieces Fire on the Mountain published in1977. The book focuses on an elderly widow’s isolation and loneliness as it tells the story of Nanda Kaul who lives in Kasauli and leads a solitary existence. The old lady, Nanda lives alone in a colonial house on a slope. She gives nobody a chance to interfere with her secluded life. She had spent numerous years thinking about her husband, their kids, and numerous grandkids. She has turned into a loner and remains confined from everybody including an incredible grandkid. This is her circumstance until the point that the colossal grandkid touches base on her doorstep. Raka,a young girl who is wiped out and is as withdrawn as Nanda. The child lives in her very own kind of disconnection as she withdraws into a universe of inward dream where she makes undertakings of pursuing snakes, creatures, and phantoms in the serene slopes that encompass her and her incredible grandma. The old lady sees that both of them share things for all intents and purpose however that a noteworthy distinction exists also. Nanda has been a solitary person while the young lady was naturally introduced to that sort of presence. Nanda gradually starts to need to be a piece of the kid's life and needs to impart her reality to her. Her endeavours, be that as it may, seem, by all accounts, to be futile. Her awesome granddaughter will give nobody a chance to enter her life. Nanda is not debilitated and endeavours to associate with the child by imparting stories to her. Anita Desai talks of her writing as simply ‘stories,’ and of herself as a ‘storyteller’. In this very simple way she has beautifully painted the female characters and their sufferings in the novel Fire on the Mountain which is the focused area of this research article.

Michel Gondry as Transcultural Auteur

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Marcelline Block ◽  
Jennifer Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Short Film ◽  
Romantic Comedy ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
The Road ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Television Documentary ◽  
Academy Award

In the introduction to this volume, “Michel Gondry as Transcultural Auteur,” editors Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby present an overview of Gondry’s career as well as this volume’s approaches to Gondry’s oeuvre. Born in Versailles, France in 1963, Gondry is an Academy Award-winning transnational (France-USA) and transcultural (French-American) auteur whose body of work as a writer, director, and producer spans multiple genres—including feature film, short film, television, documentary, music video, big budget superhero film, romantic comedy, the road movie, advertisements—and languages (English, French, Japanese). In this respect, Gondry can be considered a contemporary globalized auteur whose films and other works display continuities and eclecticism. In addition, this introduction presents an overview of each of this volume’s sections and chapters in terms of how they identify connections and continuities between Gondry’s films while placing Gondry’s oeuvre in dialogue with French and American cinematic traditions and socio-cultural contexts. The introduction puts forth this volume’s main contention, namely that “Gondry is emblematic of transnational auteur filmmaking…crossing aesthetic and cultural borders between national film industries as well as between art and popular cinema and between media” and how Gondry’s oeuvre defies classification according to traditional conceptions of European art cinema.

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