Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time

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de Wimal Dissanayake

Type

Studies

Sujet

One Film > Ashes of Time

Mots Clés

Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong

Année d'édition

2003

Editeur

Hong Kong University Press

Collection

The New Hong Kong Cinema

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Hardcover • 196 pages
5 ½ x 7 ½ inches (14 x 19 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

962-209-584-4
978-962-209-584-7

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Description de l'ouvrage:
This book presents the nature and significance of Ashes of Time, and the reasons for its being regarded as a landmark in Hong Kong cinema.

À propos de l'auteur :
Wimal Dissanayake is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Hong Kong and also teaches at the University of Hawaii. A leading scholar of Asian cinema, his most recent work is New Chinese Cinema (with Kwok-kan Tam, Oxford University Press, 1998). He is also the founding editor of East-West Film Journal.

Revue de Presse:
"Carefully researched and lucidly written, this study of Ashes of Time... shows its uncanny engagement with the leftist melancholy of the postcolonial present... It suggests how the discrepant temporal-spatial registers and optical pyrotechnics of Wong Ka

"A significant contribution to the field of Hong Kong film studies... Dissanayake examines the preoccupations with time, space and other stylistic traits that we have come to identify with Wong Kar-wai the use of voice-overs, the fragmented style of his n

"This book fills a long-felt need for specific analyses of films by important directors like Wong Kar-wai." ― E. Ann Kaplan, Professor of English and Comparative Studies, SUNY Stony Brook, and author of Women in Film Noir (British Film Institute, 1999)

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