{"product_id":"a-companion-to-wong-kar-wai-hardback-9781118424247","title":"A Companion to Wong Kar-wai (Hardback) 9781118424247","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Wong Kar-wai\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This superb collection traces the local and global pathways of Wong Kar-wai’s films, parses their moods and sensory textures, and animates the histories they interweave. What emerges is a multi-faceted portrait of a director who defies categories.”\u003cbr\u003eJean Ma, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This splendid collective labor of love provides a window to the dazzling spectrum of the film art of Wong Kar-wai, one of the most exciting art-house directors in contemporary world cinema.”\u003cbr\u003eSheldon Lu, University of California, Davis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Each essay in this multifaceted diamond of a collection shines a different light on the grandmaster Wong Karwai. From the Sinophone to queer, music to colour, his Shanghai roots to American dreams and more, the range is a kaleidoscopic delight.”\u003cbr\u003eChris Berry, King’s College London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartha P. Nochimson (Edited by), MP Nochimson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118424247, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 January 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e648 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.1 x 17.8 x 3 cm, 1.247 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWith 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, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Wong Kar-Wai\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular examination of the prestigious filmmaker known around the world for the innovation, beauty, and passion he brings to filmmaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes two appendices which examine Wong’s work in Hong Kong television and commercials\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWong Kar-wai: Invoking the Universal and the Local 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartha P. Nochimson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two Mapping Wong’s Liminality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Transnational Wong 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKen Provencher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 It is a Restless Moment: Wong Kar-wai and the Phenomenology of Flow 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph G. Kickasola\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Wong Kar-wai and his jiang hu 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBérénice Reynaud\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three Thresholds of Texture and Mood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Wong Kar-wai’s Cinema of Repetition 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAckbar Abbas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Wong Kar-wai: The Optics of the Virtual 135\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngelo Restivo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Color Design in the Cinema of Wong Kar-wai 153\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShohini Chaudhuri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Value of Re-exports: Wong Kar-wai’s Use of Pre-existing Soundtracks 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiorgio Biancorosso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four In the Corridors of History and Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Wong’s Ladies from Shanghai 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGina Marchetti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Sinophone Cinema of Wong Kar-wai 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAudrey Yue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 New Queer Angles on Wong Kar-wai 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelen Hok-Sze Leung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 “Pity about the furniture”: Violence, Wong Kar-wai Style 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren Fang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 In the Mood for Food: Wong Kar-wai’s Culinary Imaginary 295\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMike Ingham and Matthew Kwok-kin Fung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Chungking Express, Tarantino, and the Making of a Reputation 319\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Desser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five Close-up of Wong’s Inflections of Time and Space\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Chungking Express: Slow – Images – Ahead 347\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaymond Bellour (translated by Allyn Hardyck)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Wong Kar-wai: The Actor, Framed 353\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoe McElhaney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Infidelity and the Obscure Object of History 378\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVivian P.Y. Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Metonymy, Mneme, and Anamnesis in Wong Kar-wai 397\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThorsten Botz-Bornstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Six Focus on Individual Films\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Serial, Sequelae, and Postcolonial Nostalgia: Wong Kar-wai’s 1960s Hong Kong Trilogy 419\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYiman Wang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 We Can’t Go On Not Meeting Like This: Fallen Angels and Wong’s Intertextuality 438\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartha P. Nochimson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Third Reality: In the Mood for Love 462\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichel Chion (translated by Claudia Gorbman)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Cinephiliac Engagement and the Disengaged Gaze in In the Mood for Love 467\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYomi Braester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Wong’s America, North and South: My Blueberry Nights and Happy Together 485\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKen Provencher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Queer Utopias in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together 508\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarlos Rojas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Wong Kar-wai’s Genre Practice and Romantic Authorship: The Cases of Ashes of Time Redux and The Grandmaster 522\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Teo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Wong Kar-wai, Auteur and Adaptor: Ashes of Time and In The Mood for Love 540\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWai-ping Yau\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilmography 558\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix I Wong Works in Television Chih-ting Chen 562\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix II Wong Works in Advertising Chih-ting Chen 569\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 600\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453492850968,"sku":"9781118424247","price":124.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781118424247.jpg?v=1785285116","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-companion-to-wong-kar-wai-hardback-9781118424247","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}