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ISBN: 9781118425275 , 1118425278 , 9781118425589 , 1118425588 , 9781118425268 , 111842526X

Content: 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.

Note: 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 /

Additional Edition: Print version: Companion to Wong Kar-wai. Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2016 ISBN 9781118424247

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Language: English

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ISBN: 9781118425268 (e-book)

Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell companions to film directors

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (660 pages)

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ISBN: 9781118425268

Series Statement: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors Series v.13

Note: Intro -- 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 understanding -- Notes -- 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-wai -- The 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 , Nostalgia and Romantic authorship -- Romantic authorship as modernist structuring of desire -- Notes -- References -- 25 Wong Kar-wai, Auteur and Adaptor -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- As writer -- As director -- Appendix I Wong Works in Television -- Notes -- References -- Appendix II Wong Works in Advertising -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- EULA , References -- 16 Infidelity and the Obscure Object of History -- Introduction -- The 1960s trilogy as inter-/meta-texts -- Infidelity and the anxiety of betrayal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 17 Metonymy, Mneme, and Anamnesis in Wong Kar-wai -- Introduction -- Metaphor, symbol, metonymy -- Time and metonymy in Wong's films -- Nostalgic space vs. chronotopic space -- Days of Being Wild: Wrapping time into time -- Mneme and anamnesis -- Anamnesis, art, play -- Nostalgia for the future -- Notes -- References -- Part Six Focus on Individual Films -- 18 Serial, Sequelae, and Postcolonial Nostalgia -- The transnational vs. the local/regional -- From the transnational to the local/regional -- The serial structure and the dialectic relationship between the transnational and the local -- Notes -- References -- 19 We Can't Go On Not Meeting Like This Fallen Angels and Wong's Intertextuality -- Daddy, daddy -- Speaking of silence -- Forget Him -- The Blonde and the camera -- Speaking our language -- Notes -- References -- 20 The Third Reality -- 21 Cinephiliac Engagement and the Disengaged Gaze in In the Mood for Love -- The gaze disengaged -- The cinephiliac reception of In the Mood for Love -- Offscreen space and the cinephiliac moment -- The absence of spatial desire -- Fragments of the present -- Notes -- References -- 22 Wong's America, North and South -- Introduction -- A matched pair -- The homosocial road movie -- From Happy to Blueberry -- Wong outside, outsiders in Wong -- Natural access -- In the driver's seat -- Male-male relations -- Female-female relations -- Conclusion -- References -- 23 Queer Utopias in Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together -- Starting over -- New beginnings -- Border crossings -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- 24 Wong Kar-wai's Genre Practice and Romantic Authorship -- The Wong Kar-wai brand of Romantic authorship , Repetition as appropriation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Discography -- 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 genres -- Erotics 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) -- Coda: The Grandmaster (2013) -- References -- 13 Chungking Express, Tarantino, and the Making of a Reputation -- Chungking Express and the film festival circuit -- Rolling Thunder Pictures and the Tarantino connection -- The Godard connection -- The missing context(s) -- The legacy -- Notes -- References -- Part Five Close-up of Wong's Inflections of Time and Space -- 14 Chungking Express -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 15 Wong Kar-wai -- Submitting -- Looking -- Touching -- Moving -- Notes

Additional Edition: Print version Nochimson, Martha P. A Companion to Wong Kar-Wai Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2016 ISBN 9781118425589

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books

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