Remixing Wong Kar-wai

Giorgio Biancorosso is Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong and author of Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema.

Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Musical Borrowing Redux 1 1. Splicing 28 2. Poaching 63 3. Owning 87 4. Redressing 117 5. Oblivion 158 Notes 187 Bibliography 209 Index 221

"With the consummate skill of a discerning expert listener, Giorgio Biancorosso unpacks Wong Kar-wai's mercurial feats of borrowing from an extensive sonic archive East and West, feats that enable startlingly fresh fictional worlds to emerge in Wong's films. This admirably fine-grained book brings to the study of world cinema and Hong Kong culture a whole new threshold of aesthetic finesse and conceptual sophistication. A game-changing achievement." - Rey Chow, author of (Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture) "Remixing Wong Kar-wai makes a major contribution to the fields of film studies, musicology, and related areas. Giorgio Biancorosso's arguments are wholly original, compelling, and provocative while his textual analyses of key films and music are exceptionally illuminating. His book teems with important arguments and fascinating ideas. Focusing centrally on Wong Kar-wai's deployment of preexisting music, Biancorosso advances original and fertile notions such as the director-as-recomposer. An important and timely book." - Gary Bettinson, author of (The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance)