A companion to Wong Kar-wai / edited by Martha P. Nochimson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nochimson, Martha P., editor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Wiley Blackwell companions to film directors

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wong, Kar-wai, 1958-.

Wong, Kar-wai.

Motion picture producers and directors--China.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures--China.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (660 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

System Details:

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Summary:

With 25 essays that embrace a wide spectrum of topics and perspectives including intertextuality, transnationality, gender representation, repetition, the use of music, color, and sound, depiction of time and space in human affairs, and Wong's highly original portrayal of violence, A Companion to Wong Kar-Wai is a singular examination of the prestigious filmmaker known around the world for the innovation, beauty, and passion he brings to filmmaking. * Brings together the most cutting edge, in-depth, and interesting scholarship on arguably the greatest living Asian filmmaker, from a multinational group of established and rising film scholars and critics * Covers a huge breadth of topics such as the tradition of the jianghu in Wong's films; queering Wong's films not in terms of gender but through the artist's liminality; the phenomenological Wong; Wong's intertextuality; America through Wong's eyes; the optics of intensities, thresholds, and transfers of energy in Wong's cinema; and the diasporic presence of some ladies from Shanghai in Wong's Hong Kong * Examines the political, historical, and sociological influence of Wong and his work, and discusses his work from a variety of perspectives including modern, post-modern, postcolonial, and queer theory * Includes two appendices which examine Wong's work in Hong Kong television and commercials

Contents:

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors; Title page; Copyright; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part One Introduction; Wong Kar-wai: Invoking the Universal and the Local; References; Part Two Mapping Wong's Liminality; 1 Transnational Wong; Introduction; Transnational vs. national; Wong between models, theories, disciplines; Transience and randomness; Shifting narratives and self-referentiality; Talking to themselves; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2 It is a Restless Moment; Generating and shaping flow; The Grandmaster: Force, gesture, and release; Time flows, the body knows

Restless on the dance floor: Corporeal understandingNotes; References; 3 Wong Kar-wai and his jiang hu; Introduction: The jiang hu and its discontent; Jiang hu: Phantom space, lost space; Jiang hu as intertextual space; Jiang hu as space regained; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part Three Thresholds of Texture and Mood; 4 Wong Kar-wai's Cinema of Repetition; To begin with repetition; A space of disappearance; The erotics of disappearance; The ruins of action; References; 5 Wong Kar-wai; Images unfolding; From resonance to mapping; Translation and the "transcultural"; Notes; References

6 Color Design in the Cinema of Wong Kar-waiThe critical reception of color; Classical color aesthetics; Wong's improvisational methods; Color as an authorial signature; Colored audition and other forms of synesthesia; Vitality of landscapes; Play of memory; Color as a narrative enigma; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7 The Value of Re-exports; "Once Upon a Time in Kung Fu"?; The world's first Wong Kar-wai moment; Global cinema as musical inventory; Bespoke or off the rack?; Borrowed music as mood music; Mood music as point of view; Repetition as appropriation; Acknowledgments; Notes

ReferencesDiscography; Part Four In the Corridors of History and Culture; 8 Wong's Ladies from Shanghai; Introduction: Wong Kar-wai's Shanghai romance; The mother, the whore, and the housewife; Su Lizhen multiplied; Hemmed in: From scopophilia to cinephilia; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 9 The Sinophone Cinema of Wong Kar-wai; Introduction; Situating the Sinophone cinema of Wong; Minor transnationalism of a periphery outside China; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 10 New Queer Angles on Wong Kar-wai; Prologue: Do it over; Queer investments; Straight-up queer

Between genresErotics of failure; Bodies and bonds; Epilogue: Some strange noise; Acknowledgments; References; 11 "Pity about the furniture"; Social realism, the Hong Kong New Wave, and its precedents for Wong's screen violence; Commercial filmmaking, Patrick Tam, and an alternative mode in screen violence; Violence, Wong Kar-wai style; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 12 In the Mood for Food; Introduction; As Tears Go By (1988); Days of Being Wild (1990); Ashes of Time (1994); Chungking Express (1994); Fallen Angels (1995); Happy Together (1997); In the Mood for Love (2000); 2046 (2004)

My Blueberry Nights (2007)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-118-42527-8

1-118-42526-X

1-118-42558-8

OCLC:

938451370