Wong Kar-wai (eBook)

Interviews

Silver Wai-ming Lee, Micky Lee (Herausgeber)

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2017 | EPub Single
228 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-1285-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Collected interviews with the Hong Kong auteur covering every feature film he’s directed, from his debut, As Tears Go By, to his 2013 The Grandmaster

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Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only makes art for a few high-brow critics. However, Wong's interviews show this Hong Kong auteur is candid about the art of filmmaking, even surprising his interlocutors by suggesting his films are commercial and made for a popular audience. Wong's achievements nevertheless feel like art-house cinema. His third film, Chungking Express, introduced him to a global audience captivated by the quick and quirky editing style. His Cannes award-winning films Happy Together and In the Mood for Love confirmed an audience beyond the greater Chinese market. His latest film, The Grandmaster, depicts the life of a kung fu master by breaking away from the martial arts genre. In each of these films, Wong Kar-wai's signature style-experimental, emotive, character-driven, and timeless-remains apparent throughout. This volume includes interviews that appear in English for the first time, including some that appeared in Hong Kong magazines now out of print. The interviews cover every feature film from Wong's debut As Tears Go By to his 2013 The Grandmaster.

Autor

lt;b>Silver Wai-ming Lee earned his master of philosophy in cultural studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a film critic and researcher of the cinema of Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan. Micky Lee is associate professor of media studies at Suffolk University, Boston. A Hong Kong native, she is author of Free Information? The Case against Google and coauthor of Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
• Reihe/Serie: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Schlagworte: Abe Kobo • action • allen woody • allen yuk-ping fong • As Tears Go By • Biography • Bruce Lee • characters • Chinese • Chungking Express • Cinema • Cinematography • Clark Gable • comic con • days of being wild • Director • Dire Straits • Eros • Existentialism • Fallen Angels • fight scenes • Film • Filmmaker • Film noir • Film Studies • Footage • Forrest Gump • fuji film • George W. Bush • half a lifetime romance • Happy Together • Hong Kong • In the Mood for Love • Ip Man • juzo itami • Kowloon • Kung Fu • Lao She • Love relationships • Maggie Cheung • Martial Arts • music • no longer human • period piece • production process • screenplays • Shanghai • Stanley Kwan • Storytelling • the blue kite • The Grandmaster • the hand • the see hand • the woman in the dunes
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-1285-9 / 1496812859
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-1285-8 / 9781496812858