{"product_id":"remixing-wong-kar-wai-music-bricolage-and-the-aesthetics-of-oblivion-paperback","title":"Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGiorgio Biancorosso\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike 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 \u003ci\u003eRemixing Wong Kar-wai\u003c\/i\u003e, Giorgio Biancorosso examines the combinatorial practice at the heart of Wong's cinema to retheorize musical borrowing, appropriation, and repurposing. Wong's irrepressible penchant for poaching music from other films--whether old Chinese melodramas, Hollywood blockbusters, or European art films--subsumes 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 L?vi-Strauss's concept of bricolage, Biancorosso contends that Wong's 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 Wong's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiorgio Biancorosso is Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong and author of \u003ci\u003eSituated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758474625312,"sku":"9781478031178","price":43.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7ac684e7387b571cd4d126a2b1899187_736b0104-d69e-437a-a8ae-2bf9b39ad0f4.webp?v=1780127249","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/remixing-wong-kar-wai-music-bricolage-and-the-aesthetics-of-oblivion-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}