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Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion

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By (author): Giorgio Biancorosso

Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning original scores in favor of commercial recordings. In Remixing Wong Kar-wai, Giorgio Biancorosso examines the combinatorial practice at the heart of Wongs cinema to retheorize musical borrowing, appropriation, and repurposing. Wongs irrepressible penchant for poaching music from other filmswhether old Chinese melodramas, Hollywood blockbusters, or European art filmssubsumes familiar music under his own brand of cinema. As Wong combs through musical and cinematic archives and splices disparate music together, exceedingly well-known music loses its previous associations and acquires an infinite new constellation of meanings in his films. Drawing on Claude Lévi-Strausss concept of bricolage, Biancorosso contends that Wongs borrowing is akin to a practice of creative destruction in which Wong becomes a bricoleur who remixes music at hand to create new and complete, self-sustaining statements. By outlining Wongs modus operandi of indiscriminate borrowing and remixing, Biancorosso prompts readers to reconsider the significance of transforming preexisting music into new compositions for film and beyond. See more
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  • Weight: 572g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781478026945

About Giorgio Biancorosso

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

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