The sensuous cinema of Wong Kar-Wai : film poetics and the aesthetic of disturbance /
The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong's filmmaking techniques uses a poetics approach to examine how form, music, narration, characterization, genre and other artistic elements work together to prod...
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Wong Kar-wai and the poetics of Hong Kong cinema
- Romantic overtures : music in Chungking express
- Partial views : visual style and the aesthetic of disturbance
- Parallel lives : poetics of the postproduction plot
- Frustrating formulas : popular genre and In the mood for love
- Appropriations, reflections, and future directions.