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Wong Kar-Wai traces this immensely exciting director's perennial themes of time, love, and loss, and examines the political implications of his films, especially concerning the handover of former British colony Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
This book is the first in any language to cover all of Wong's work, from his first film, As Tears Go By, to his most recent, the still unreleased 2046. It also includes his best?known, highly honored films, Chungking Express, Happy Together, and above all, In the Mood for Love. Most importantly, Peter Brunette describes the ways in which Wong's supremely visual films attempt to create a new form of cinema by relying on stunning, suggestive visual images and audio tracks to tell their story, rather than on traditional notions of character, dialogue, and plot. The question of Wong Kar-wai's use of genre film techniques in art films is also explored in depth.
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Peter Brunette was the Reynolds Professor of Film Studies at Wake Forest University. He wrote books on Roberto Rossellini and Michelangelo Antonioni and was the coauthor of Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory. He was chief critic for indieWIRE.com and reviewed regularly for the British trade journal, Screen International.
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When Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai broke through to a sizable American audience with In the Mood for Love (2000), he had more than 15 years of stunningly gorgeous and innovative films to his credit, and those have gone largely unseen on these shores. Brunette covers Wong's entire oeuvre, including the yet to be released 2046, showing how the director came to apply his virtuosic technique, front-and-center from his early work on, to more sophisticated stories and characterizations. Brunette traces the love, longing, and regret on view in all of Wong's films, and he rightly emphasizes their "graphic expressivity"--that is, the distinctive, visually kinetic approach that continues to be the director's hallmark as he matures. Two interviews, from 1995 and 2000, provide additional insights into Wong's career. Gordon Flagg
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- PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0252029925
- ISBN 13 9780252029929
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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