Format:
1 online resource (660 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
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
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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
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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
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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
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