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Conference Paper: The Filmmaker as Music Bricoleur: Wong Kar Wai’s Soundtracks
Title | The Filmmaker as Music Bricoleur: Wong Kar Wai’s Soundtracks |
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Issue Date | 2019 |
Citation | Creative Media Colloquium, School of Creative Media, City Univerfsity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 22 January 2019 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In this talk I seek to shed new light on the age-old practice of borrowing in the arts by taking a close look at the musical nexus at the heart of Wong Kar Wai’s cinema. Wong’s use of pre-existing music is shaped by the circumstances of his films’ production and reception, the history of Chinese-language cinemas, and the involved relationship, in his oeuvre, of cinephilia and musicophilia. Against this context, I chart the emergence of a unique modus operandi which I interpret as a way of channeling creatively a lifetime of chancing upon, collecting and listening to music in the commercial and artistic entrepôt of Hong Kong. Directing films, I wish to argue, turns Wong Kar Wai the music lover and end-user into a bona fide composer or better re-composer of the very repertoires he explores—the filmmaker as music bricoleur. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/282626 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Biancorosso, G | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-22T03:51:00Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-05-22T03:51:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Creative Media Colloquium, School of Creative Media, City Univerfsity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 22 January 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/282626 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In this talk I seek to shed new light on the age-old practice of borrowing in the arts by taking a close look at the musical nexus at the heart of Wong Kar Wai’s cinema. Wong’s use of pre-existing music is shaped by the circumstances of his films’ production and reception, the history of Chinese-language cinemas, and the involved relationship, in his oeuvre, of cinephilia and musicophilia. Against this context, I chart the emergence of a unique modus operandi which I interpret as a way of channeling creatively a lifetime of chancing upon, collecting and listening to music in the commercial and artistic entrepôt of Hong Kong. Directing films, I wish to argue, turns Wong Kar Wai the music lover and end-user into a bona fide composer or better re-composer of the very repertoires he explores—the filmmaker as music bricoleur. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Creative Media Colloquium, School of Creative Media, City Univerfsity of Hong Kong | - |
dc.title | The Filmmaker as Music Bricoleur: Wong Kar Wai’s Soundtracks | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Biancorosso, G: rogopag@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Biancorosso, G=rp01213 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 304818 | - |