Working English and Opportunity: Walls, Doors, and Windows in Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer, Okja, & Parasite

Abstract

Exploring the relationship between English as a global language and work as suggested by the imagery of doors, windows, and walls in Bong’s most recent films, this paper suggests how foreign-language directors may use translanguage to describe the complicated relationship between success, language ego, and labor as well as the consequences of not embracing the language of capitalism.

Presenter Biography
Sara Gruber studied humanities at New College of Florida and film at Stony Brook University. Currently, she teaches in the Intensive English Program at the University of Central Florida. As an English as a second language teacher at Savannah College of Art and Design, she became interested in the role language plays in the creation of works by and the career success of bi- and multilingual creatives, specifically in film and television.