CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ILLUSTRATIONS xi
4. PREFACE xiii
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. 1 • A NEW CULTURAL GENERATION 14
7. 2 • CINEMATIC “PERVERSIONS” Tonal Shifts, Visual Gags, and Techniques of Defamiliarization 39
8. 3 • SOCIAL PUJORIS AND THE “NARRATIVES OF FAILURE” Transnational Genre and Local Politics in Memories of Murder and The Host 63
9. 4 • MONSTERS WITHIN Moral Ambiguity and Anomie in Barking Dogs Never Bite and Mother 90
10. 5 • BEYOND THE LOCAL Global Politics and Neoliberal Capitalism in Snowpiercer and Okja 115
11. CONCLUSION Parasite—A New Beginning? 139
12. FILMOGRAPHY 153
13. NOTES 173
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY 191
15. INDEX 201
16. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 207