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East, West, and Gendered Subjectivity : = The Music of Wong Kar-Wai.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	East, West, and Gendered Subjectivity :/
Reminder of title:	The Music of Wong Kar-Wai.
Author:	Kersting, Erik.
Description:	1 online resource (56 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International79-12.
Subject:	Film studies. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780438032774

East, West, and Gendered Subjectivity : = The Music of Wong Kar-Wai.
Kersting, Erik.

East, West, and Gendered Subjectivity :The Music of Wong Kar-Wai. - 1 online resource (56 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12.

Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Illinois University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This study considers how Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai's use of music reinforces a transnational relationship between film and audience. The director's employment of preexisting music offers a compelling view into the psyche of his female characters and privileges their subjectivies, even when male protagonists have narrative supremacy. Through this lens of transnationalism and gendered subjectivity, this thesis examines five of Wong's best-known films, looking at how they employ music in distinctive ways. As Tears Go By (1988) displays the beginnings of Wong's "MTV aesthetic," and shows his unique use of music can be seen even in his earliest work. Wong's use of music in Chungking Express (1994) is the centerpiece of this study, illustrating how music functions as an extension of female voice and how gendered subjectivity is given primacy through music, subverting and transforming the film's narrative and focus. In an interesting gendered variation, Happy Together (1997) uses music to communicate the dysfunctions of a queer relationship and express the dissonance of two gay male characters hopelessly in love. In the Mood for Love (2000) goes beyond music signifying a single character's subjectivity, and expresses the shared subtle emotions of a heteronormative couple. Finally, 2046 (2004), Wong's postmodern epic, presents a narrative that is fractured and layered; similarly, the music is layered, complicated, and fractured, yet still narratively significant and communicating characters' subjectivity.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438032774Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179264
Film studies.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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