{"product_id":"remixing-wong-kar-wai-giorgio-biancorosso-9781478026945","title":"Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion","description":"Like 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giorgio Biancorosso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478026944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478026945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Giorgio Biancorosso","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46489620087039,"sku":"9781478026945","price":102.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_444502ed-d98e-46ae-ba32-2b22d4432751.jpg?v=1736954082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/remixing-wong-kar-wai-giorgio-biancorosso-9781478026945","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}