HOUSE OF DREAMS, OR NOT

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2024.e23013

Abstract

In this paper, we will discuss the role of the built environment as storytelling in the context of Oscar winner Parasite, a film by director Bong Joon-Ho (2019). We will look at the potentiality of the built environment in unveiling film narratives, especially regarding immanent forms of class struggle and exploitation in everyday life. We will investigate the troubling power relations between the rich and the poor in contemporary society and the ways that the concepts of alienation/estrangement, objectification/reification and commodity fetishism can be used to bring these relations to the fore when analyzing the movie.

Keywords: Parasite; built environment; inequality; class struggle; alienation; everyday life.

Author Biographies

  • Renata Archanjo, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal (RN), Brazil

    Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Modern Languages and Literature and at the Postgraduate Program of Language Studies (PPGEL, UFRN). Associate researcher at the Institute of Multilingualism (University of Fribourg, Switzerland).

  • Peter Hitchcock, Baruch College, New York, United States of America

    PROFESSOR at Baruch College, and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY); PhD (CUNY); research interests in literary theory, cultural theory, Marxism, Bakhtin, working-class fiction, world literature, postcolonialism, and film studies.

  • Márcio Moraes Valença, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - Natal (RN)

    Professor at the Postgraduate Program of Architecture and Urbanism – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (PPGAU – UFRN); Senior researcher at the Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES – Coimbra University).

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Published

2024-08-07

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Vol. 23 (2024)

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