{"id":295,"date":"2021-04-05T21:57:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/?p=295"},"modified":"2021-04-05T21:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:57:55","slug":"video-essay-horror-and-social-commentary-in-parasite-and-the-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/2021\/04\/05\/video-essay-horror-and-social-commentary-in-parasite-and-the-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Essay: Horror and Social Commentary in &#8216;Parasite&#8217; and &#8216;The Assistant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/parasite-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/parasite-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/parasite-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/parasite-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/parasite-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/parasite.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For Emma Hoffman, two 2019 films borrow from techniques utilized in the horror genre to advance important social concerns: economic inequality (Bong-Joon Ho&#8217;s <\/em>Parasite<em>) and sexual harassment in the workplace (Kitty Green&#8217;s <\/em>The Assistant<em>). Hoffman cites both films&#8217; use of color and suspense as instances where they employ the vernacular of horror as a means of commenting on the injustices depicted in those narratives.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Horror and Social Commentary in &#039;Parasite&#039; and &#039;The Assistant&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/23xuMAiQIXE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Emma Hoffman, two 2019 films borrow from techniques utilized in the horror genre to advance important social concerns: economic inequality (Bong-Joon Ho&#8217;s Parasite) and sexual harassment in the workplace (Kitty Green&#8217;s The Assistant). Hoffman cites both films&#8217; use of color and suspense as instances where they employ the vernacular of horror as a means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223009],"tags":[227626,227630,166381,227625,227627,227631,227628],"class_list":{"0":"post-295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-video-essays","7":"tag-bong-joon-ho","8":"tag-color-theory","9":"tag-horror","10":"tag-kitty-green","11":"tag-parasite","12":"tag-suspense","13":"tag-the-assistant","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}