Abstract
Chronotopes of expulsion manifest the more violent or explicit forms of marginalisation characterising precarious lives. The first chapter of the third section of the book offers a detailed account of Bong Joon-ho’s latest acclaimed film Parasite (2019). While presenting an extremely class-divided society, the film also enacts a specific dialogical construction, where social relations are conceivable only in predatory terms. Parasite allows us to engage with the ethical dilemmas lying at the centre of every struggle for social emancipation, advocating the elaboration of a completely new mode of collective experience.
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Sticchi, F. (2021). Parasite, or The Economy of Massacre. In: Mapping Precarity in Contemporary Cinema and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63261-8_12
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