Lines Left to Cross
Deglobalization and the Domestic Western in Bong Joon-ho'sParasite
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2229489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, Joseph Jeon (0000-0003-3249-2532, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 557-580 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-1896 • E-ISSN: 1539-7858 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/724983 |
| OpenAlex | W4380081621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article situates Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019) within the historical logics of the Washington Consensus. In this broad context, we might think of the film’s much-heralded class critique as not quite so domestically contained as may initially appear in a film staged primarily in the confines of a single household. Instead, it opens onto a global political economic framework, which it explores through a nested structure in which class dynamics are also mobilized to explore cold-war and trade-war logics, both of which are revealed to be radically interconnected with domestic concerns. Parasite reveals then the inherent dissensus in the Washington Consensus, a dissensus that was always latent but eventually became more explicit. We might say more generally that stories of class difference take on a pointedly different tenor during periods of stagnation; the specific anxiety in Parasite then is not just over the moral fact of social inequality but also specifically about the material distribution of wealth in the face of diminishing resources. The fact of brutal competition emerges from a milieu that seems ostensibly defined by plentitude
Class (philosophy · Competition (biology · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |