Essays about: "Snowpiercer"

Found 2 essays containing the word Snowpiercer.

1. 1. Nature Will Not Be Ignored : Ecology and Neoliberalism in the Cinema of Bong Joon-ho

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för koreanska

   Author : Christian Gregory; [2022]
   Keywords : Bong Joon-ho; Korean Cinema; Ecology; Environmentalism; South Korea; Neoliberalism; Capitalism; The Host; Parasite; Snowpiercer; Okja; South Korea; Pollution; Barking Dogs Never Bite; Mother; Cli-fi; climate change;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the filmography of Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho [Pong Chun-ho], and to provide a limited textual analysis of each film divided across two categories: the “explicitly ecological” and “implicitly ecological”. The intent is to, by viewing all of Bong’s films leading up to his critical and commercial success Parasite, argue that Parasite is as much an environmental film as it is critical of neoliberalism and globalization, both of which are common readings of not only Parasite, but all of Bong’s work. READ MORE

3. 2. Every Body in its Place : The reproduction of inequality by way of education in Metropolis and Snowpiercer 

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

   Author : Ebbe Bjelkendal; [2020]
   Keywords : Ideology; ideological state apparatuses; pedagogic action; pedagogic authority; science fiction; corporatism; neoliberalism;

   Abstract : With increasing inequality in the world, having knowledge about the apparatuses maintaining unequal social structures is important. Utopian and dystopian science fiction films are a good source for analysis of social structures, due to their inherent interest in social critique and the role of semiotics in the spreading of ideology. READ MORE