ABSTRACT
Moving beyond the usual focus on the authorship of Bong Joon-Ho or textual analysis of the film, this chapter investigates how Parasite came into being from a different angle, focusing on how the film and its director Bong were both produced to be a globally appealing film and auteur. In particular, it aims to uncover accounts of producers who have been marginalized not only in the Parasite saga but overall in historical narratives of the global emergence of Korean cinema beginning in the 1990s. This interrogation of the producer also entails an examination of Bong’s involvement with Parasite as producer. Instead of merely seeing the filmmaker as the author of the film who is in control of the creative aspect of the film, this chapter looks into the seldom-discussed role of Bong as producer and how it contributed to the film’s global circulation.
