Wong Kar-wai's Cinematic Universe

Wong Kar-Wai: Auteur of Time

"The Cinematic World of Wong Kar-wai" is a pioneering and systematic study of Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai. The author reviews Wong's career and provides an in-depth analysis of his filmography to date. Furthermore, the author includes Wong's work in commercials and music videos. The book analyzes Wong's cinematic and literary influences (from Martin Scorsese to Hitchcock, from Manuel Puig to Haruki Murakami) and examines how Wong transcends these influences. Renowned film scholar Dana Boland observes, "Zhang Jiande is particularly adept at analyzing the diverse aesthetic influences that inform Wong Kar-wai's films, incorporating them into the fabric of his films and making them his own." Remarkably, Zhang Jiande accurately identifies the intertextual landscape underlying Wong Kar-wai's films as encompassing more than a single source of inspiration: he explains why the aesthetic practices of other artists and art forms that Wong Kar-wai references and appropriates are so crucial, and how they contribute to the unique character and narrative identity of his films.

2021-03-01

北京大学出版社

Peiwen

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