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A Companion to Wong Kar-wai / edited by Martha P. Nochimson.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Chichester : John Wiley & Sons ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
©2016
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xvi, 627 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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East Asian Library - Western Languages
PN1998.3.W65 C66 2016
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Subject(s)
Motion picture producers and directors
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China
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Motion pictures
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China
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Wong, Kar-wai 1958-
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Criticism and interpretation
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Editor
Nochimson, Martha
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Nochimson, Martha
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Series
Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 586-599) and index.
Filmography: pages 558-561.
Contents
(from table of contents) Part One. Introduction. Wong Kar-wai: Invoking the universal and the local / Martha P. Nochimson
Part two. Mapping Wong's liminality. 1. Transnational Wong / Ken Provencher
2. It is a restless moment: Wong Kar-wai and the phenomenology of flow / Joseph G. Kickasola
3. Wong Kar-wai and his jiang hu / Bérénice Reynaud
Part three. Thresholds of texture and mood. 4. Wong Kar-wai's cinema of repetition / Ackbar Abbas
5. Wong Kar-wai: The optics of the virtual / Angelo Restivo
6. Color design in the cinema of Wong Kar-wai / Shohini Chaudhuri
7. The value of re-exports: Wong Kar-wai's use of pre-existing soundtracks / Giorgio Biancorosso
Part four. In the corridors of history and culture. 8. Wong's ladies from Shanghai / Gina Marchetti
9. The Sinophone cinema of Wong Kar-wai / Audrey Yue
10. New queer angles on Wong Kar-wai / Helen Hok-Sze Leung
11. "Pity about the furniture": Violence, Wong Kar-wai style / Karen Fang
12. In the mood for food: Wong Kar-wai's culinary imaginary / Mike Ingham and Matthew Kwok-kin Fung
13. "Chungking Express", Tarantino, and the making of a reputation / David Desser
Part five. Close-up of Wong's inflections of time and space. "Chungking Express": Slow - images - ahead / Raymond Bellour ; translated by Allyn Hardyck
15. Wong Kar-wai: The actor, framed / Joe McElhaney
16. Infidelity and the obscure object of history / Vivian P.Y. Lee
17. Metonymy, mneme, and anamnesis in Wong Kar-wai / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Part six. Focus on individual films. 18. Serial, sequelae, and postcolonial nostalgia: Wong Kar-wai's 1960s Hong Kong trilogy / Yiman Wang
19. We can't go on not meeting like this: "Fallen angels" and Wong's intertextuality / Martha P. Nochimson
20. The third reality: "In the mood for love" / Michel Chion ; translated by Claudia Gorbman
21. Cinephiliac engagement and the disengaged gaze in "In the mood for love" / Yomi Braester
22. Wong's America, North and South: "My blueberry nights" and "Happy together" / Ken Provencher
23. Queer utopias in Wong Kar-wai's "Happy together" / Carlos Rojas
24. Wong Kar-wai's genre practice and romantic authorship: The cases of "Ashes of time redux" and "The grandmaster" / Stephen Teo
25. Wong Kar-wai, auteur and adaptor: "Ashes of time" and "In the mood for love" / Wai-ping Yau
Filmography
Appendix I. Wong works in television / Chih-ting Chen
Appendix II. Wong works in advertising / Chih-ting Chen
Selected bibliography
Index.
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Wong Kar-wai
ISBN
1118424247 ((hardcover))
9781118424247 ((hardcover))
OCLC
939596676
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