A Companion to Wong Kar-wai

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Martha P. Nochimson
John Wiley & Sons, 2016 M01 26 - 648 pages
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
 

Selected pages

Contents

Part Two Mapping Wongs Liminality
21
Wong Karwai and the Phenomenology
47
Wong Karwai and his jiang hu
80
Part Three Thresholds of Texture and Mood
113
The Optics of the Virtual
135
Color Design in the Cinema of Wong Karwai
153
Contents
182
Part Four In the Corridors of History and Culture
205
Infidelity and the Obscure Object of History
378
Metonymy Mneme and Anamnesis in Wong Karwai
397
Part Six Focus on Individual Films
417
Fallen Angels and Wongs
438
In the Mood for Love
462
Cinephiliac Engagement and the Disengaged Gaze in In the Mood
467
My Blueberry Nights and Happy
485
Queer Utopias in Wong Karwais Happy Together
508

The Sinophone Cinema of Wong Karwai
232
New Queer Angles on Wong Karwai
250
Violence Wong Karwai Style
272
Wong Karwais Culinary Imaginary
295
Chungking Express Tarantino and the Making of a Reputation
319
Part Five Closeup of Wongs Inflections of Time and Space
345
Ashes of Time and In The Mood
540
Filmography
558
Wong Works in Advertising Chihting Chen
569
Selected Bibliography
586
Index
600
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About the author (2016)

Martha P. Nochimson has taught in the Department of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and at Mercy College, where she developed and chaired a program in Film Studies. She is the author of several books, including most recently An Introduction to Film Genres (2013), David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire (2013), World on Film: An Introduction (Wiley Blackwell, 2010), and Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). She has been invited to appear on television in her capacity as a film and media critic in the United States, Canada, and France, and she has covered international film festivals in New York, Montreal, and Istanbul for over a decade. Her numerous articles about world film and interviews of major directors have appeared in Cineaste, Film Quarterly, and The New Review of Film and Television Studies. Further information is available at her website: www.marthapnochimson.com.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to Wong Kar-wai
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
EditorMartha P. Nochimson
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2016
ISBN1118424247, 9781118424247
Length648 pages
  
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