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

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

by Giorgio Biancorosso (Duke University Press, released January 7, 2025 )
 
From the author of the pathbreaking Situated Listening (2016), Remixing Wong Kar-wai is a poetic, wide-ranging evocation of cult filmmaker Wong Kar-wai's modus operandi. Dubbed once the "best ear in the industry," Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning original scores in favor of commercial recordings. Remixing Wong Kar-wai examines the combinatorial practice at the heart of Wong’s cinema to retheorize musical borrowing, appropriation, and repurposing in Hong Kong cinema and beyond. In this book talk, author Giorgio Biancorosso will discuss the ways in which we can restore listening to the center of film studies — and oblivion to that of culture.