A companion to Wong Kar-wai /
A companion to Wong Kar-wai /
edited by Martha P. Nochimson.
- 1 online resource.
- Wiley Blackwell companions to film directors .
- Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors. .
Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Wong Kar-wai: Invoking the universal and the local / Transnational Wong / It is a restless moment: Wong Kar-wai and the phenomenology of flow / Wong Kar-wai and his jiang hu / Wong Kar-wai's cinema of repetition / Wong Kar-wai: The optics of the virtual / Color design in the cinema of Wong Kar-wai / The value of re-exports: Wong Kar-wai's use of pre-existing soundtracks / Wong's ladies from Shanghai / The Sinophone cinema of Wong Kar-wai / New queer angles on Wong Kar-wai / "Pity about the furniture": Violence, Wong Kar-wai style / In the mood for food: Wong Kar-wai's culinary imaginary / "Chungking Express", Tarantino, and the making of a reputation / "Chungking Express": Slow -- images -- ahead / Wong Kar-wai: The actor, framed / Infidelity and the obscure object of history / Metonymy, mneme, and anamnesis in Wong Kar-wai / Serial, sequelae, and postcolonial nostalgia: Wong Kar-wai's 1960s Hong Kong trilogy / We can't go on not meeting like this: "Fallen angels" and Wong's intertextuality / The third reality: "In the mood for love" / Cinephiliac engagement and the disengaged gaze in "In the mood for love" / Wong's America, North and South: "My blueberry nights" and "Happy together" / Queer utopias in Wong Kar-wai's "Happy together" / Wong Kar-wai's genre practice and romantic authorship: The cases of "Ashes of time redux" and "The grandmaster" / Wong Kar-wai, auteur and adaptor: "Ashes of time" and "In the mood for love" / Wong works in television / Wong works in advertising / Martha P. Nochimson -- Ken Provencher -- Joseph G. Kickasola -- Bérénice Reynaud -- Ackbar Abbas -- Angelo Restivo -- Shohini Chaudhuri -- Giorgio Biancorosso -- Gina Marchetti -- Audrey Yue -- Helen Hok-Sze Leung -- Karen Fang -- Mike Ingham and Matthew Kwok-kin Fung -- David Desser -- Raymond Bellour ; translated by Allyn Hardyck -- Joe McElhaney -- Vivian P.Y. Lee -- Thorsten Botz-Bornstein -- Yiman Wang -- Martha P. Nochimson -- Michel Chion ; translated by Claudia Gorbman -- Yomi Braester -- Ken Provencher -- Carlos Rojas -- Stephen Teo -- Wai-ping Yau -- Chih-ting Chen -- Chih-ting Chen -- (From table of contents) Part One. Introduction. Part two. Mapping Wong's liminality. 1. 2. 3. Part three. Thresholds of texture and mood. 4. 5. 6. 7. Part four. In the corridors of history and culture. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Part five. Close-up of Wong's inflections of time and space. 15. 16. 17. Part six. Focus on individual films. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Filmography -- Appendix I. Appendix II. Selected bibliography -- Index.
Contains 26 essays addressing numerous topics including intertextuality, transnationality, gender representation, repetition, the use of music, color, and sound, depiction of time and space in human affairs, and Wong's portrayal of violence.
9781118425275 1118425278 9781118425589 1118425588 9781118425268 111842526X
Wong, Kar-wai, 1958- --Criticism and interpretation.
Wong, Kar-wai, 1958-
Motion picture producers and directors--China.
PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
Motion picture producers and directors.
China.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN1998.3.W65
791
Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Wong Kar-wai: Invoking the universal and the local / Transnational Wong / It is a restless moment: Wong Kar-wai and the phenomenology of flow / Wong Kar-wai and his jiang hu / Wong Kar-wai's cinema of repetition / Wong Kar-wai: The optics of the virtual / Color design in the cinema of Wong Kar-wai / The value of re-exports: Wong Kar-wai's use of pre-existing soundtracks / Wong's ladies from Shanghai / The Sinophone cinema of Wong Kar-wai / New queer angles on Wong Kar-wai / "Pity about the furniture": Violence, Wong Kar-wai style / In the mood for food: Wong Kar-wai's culinary imaginary / "Chungking Express", Tarantino, and the making of a reputation / "Chungking Express": Slow -- images -- ahead / Wong Kar-wai: The actor, framed / Infidelity and the obscure object of history / Metonymy, mneme, and anamnesis in Wong Kar-wai / Serial, sequelae, and postcolonial nostalgia: Wong Kar-wai's 1960s Hong Kong trilogy / We can't go on not meeting like this: "Fallen angels" and Wong's intertextuality / The third reality: "In the mood for love" / Cinephiliac engagement and the disengaged gaze in "In the mood for love" / Wong's America, North and South: "My blueberry nights" and "Happy together" / Queer utopias in Wong Kar-wai's "Happy together" / Wong Kar-wai's genre practice and romantic authorship: The cases of "Ashes of time redux" and "The grandmaster" / Wong Kar-wai, auteur and adaptor: "Ashes of time" and "In the mood for love" / Wong works in television / Wong works in advertising / Martha P. Nochimson -- Ken Provencher -- Joseph G. Kickasola -- Bérénice Reynaud -- Ackbar Abbas -- Angelo Restivo -- Shohini Chaudhuri -- Giorgio Biancorosso -- Gina Marchetti -- Audrey Yue -- Helen Hok-Sze Leung -- Karen Fang -- Mike Ingham and Matthew Kwok-kin Fung -- David Desser -- Raymond Bellour ; translated by Allyn Hardyck -- Joe McElhaney -- Vivian P.Y. Lee -- Thorsten Botz-Bornstein -- Yiman Wang -- Martha P. Nochimson -- Michel Chion ; translated by Claudia Gorbman -- Yomi Braester -- Ken Provencher -- Carlos Rojas -- Stephen Teo -- Wai-ping Yau -- Chih-ting Chen -- Chih-ting Chen -- (From table of contents) Part One. Introduction. Part two. Mapping Wong's liminality. 1. 2. 3. Part three. Thresholds of texture and mood. 4. 5. 6. 7. Part four. In the corridors of history and culture. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Part five. Close-up of Wong's inflections of time and space. 15. 16. 17. Part six. Focus on individual films. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Filmography -- Appendix I. Appendix II. Selected bibliography -- Index.
Contains 26 essays addressing numerous topics including intertextuality, transnationality, gender representation, repetition, the use of music, color, and sound, depiction of time and space in human affairs, and Wong's portrayal of violence.
9781118425275 1118425278 9781118425589 1118425588 9781118425268 111842526X
Wong, Kar-wai, 1958- --Criticism and interpretation.
Wong, Kar-wai, 1958-
Motion picture producers and directors--China.
PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
Motion picture producers and directors.
China.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN1998.3.W65
791