1. Student's full name: Do Quoc Trung 2. Gender: Male
3. Date of birth: November 22, 1990 4. Place of birth: Hanoi
5. Decision No. 2948/2021/QD-XHNV on the recognition of postgraduate students.
December 28, 2021, by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes in the training process: None
7. Title of the graduation thesis: Bong Joon-ho's directorial style in the films "Memories of Murder," "The Host," and "Parasite": an approach from a genre perspective.
8. Specialization: Theory and history of film and television;
Code: 8210232.01
9. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Gia Lam - Faculty of Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
10. Summary of the thesis results:
Through a survey and analysis of three films.Memories of Murder, The HostandParasites(ParasiteRegarding Bong Joon-ho's filmmaking style, this thesis has achieved the following results:
- Identify the content, ideological, and aesthetic characteristics in the works of filmmaker Bong Joon-ho; determine that the prominent ideology in his film style is anti-capitalist thought, with a close combination of national and contemporary themes.
- Identifying director Bong Joon-ho's cinematic language: THe employs old techniques in staging, filming, editing, and sound in a contrasting, contradictory way, creating a new language with a distinctive personal style. This filmmaker's cinematic language is closely linked to duality, contrast, and exaggeration.These characteristics are consistent with the genres Bong Joon-ho often uses, such as dark comedy and thriller..
- Identifying genre blends is a prominent stylistic hallmark in Bong Joon-ho's films..An examination of the content (semantic) and form (structural) aspects of Bong Joon-ho's films reveals a blend of genres, with variations on traditional genres, creating a distinctive style. diverse genres, among which the following factors stand outaccuseComedy and tragedy. The two genres that Bong Joon-ho combines most often with traditional genres are: the subgenre of dark comedy and the subgenre of thriller. This genre blend isThese factors contribute to the success of Bong's works in both commercial, popular, and artistically creative aspects.
11. Practical applicability: The research results of this thesis will serve as a reference for introducing the achievements of Korean cinema in particular, and Asian cinema in general – a gap in Vietnam's reception of the best of world cinema.
12. Future research directions:
- The trend of genre fusion in contemporary (post-cinematic) cinema
- The issue of memory in Bong Joon-ho's cinematic discourse
13. Published works related to the thesis: None.
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: DO QUOC TRUNG 2. Sex: Male
3. Date of birth: 22/11/1990
4. Place of birth: Hanoi
5. Admission decision number: 2948/2021/QD-XHNV Dated:28/12/2021
6. Changes in academic process, if any:
7. Official thesis title:The Directing style of Bong Joon-ho through the three filmsMemories of Murder,The hostandParasiteGenre-based approach
8. Major:Theory and history of film and television
9. Code:8210232.01
10. Supervisors:Associate ProfessorPham Gia Lam- Faculty of Literature - University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University, Hanoi
11. Summary of the findings of the thesis:
- Indicating the salient features - the content, ideology, and aesthetic, of the works of the filmmaker Bong Joon-ho. Identifying the ideology that stands out in his films is anti-capitalism ideology, with a strong combination of ethnicity and modernity.
- Specifying the cinematic language of the director Bong Joon-ho: Using the traditional techniques in mise-en-scéne, camera movements, editing and sound in an opposite way, he created a whole new language for himself. The popular cinematic language of this filmmaker is duality, contrast, and exaggeration. These are the perfect means to support the genre Bong Joon-ho yearns for: Dark Comedy and Suspense.
- Identifying that the crucial style of Bong Joon-ho is hybrid-genre. After studying the content (semantic) and form (structural) levels of Bong Joon-ho's films, we came to the conclusion that, with the variations of traditional genres, in Bong Joon-ho's works there is a characteristic called multi-genre, in which tragedy and comedy are the two outstanding elements. The two genres that Bong Joon-ho utilizes most often when combining them with the other conventional ones are: Dark Comedy and Suspense. Multi-genre is the factor that contributes to the success of Bong Joon-ho's works in both commercial and artistic aspects.
12. Practical applicability, if any:
The research results of the thesis will serve as a guide for demonstrating the achievements of Korean cinema in particular and Asia in general, which is also what Vietnam is still short of in receiving the elite of the world cinema.
13. Further research directions, if any:
- The trend of hybrid-genre in contemporary cinema (Post-cinema)
- The issue of memory in Bong Joon-ho's film discourse
14. Thesis-related publications, if any:
