{"product_id":"9781478026945","title":"Remixing Wong Kar-wai : Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion (Asia-pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)","description":"\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 Remixing Wong Kar-wai, 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 LÉvi-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","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48965318672619,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":188.52,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781478026945-1.jpg?v=1783109752","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781478026945","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}