Remixing Wong Kar-wai

“With the consummate skill of a discerning expert listener, Giorgio Biancorosso unpacks Wong Kar-wai’s mercurial feats of borrowing from an extensive sonic archive East and West, feats that enable startlingly fresh fictional worlds to emerge in Wong's films. This admirably fine-grained book brings to the study of world cinema and Hong Kong culture a whole new threshold of aesthetic finesse and conceptual sophistication. A game-changing achievement.” - Rey Chow, author of Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture

“Remixing Wong Kar-wai makes a major contribution to the fields of film studies, musicology, and related areas. Giorgio Biancorosso’s arguments are wholly original, compelling, and provocative while his textual analyses of key films and music are exceptionally illuminating. His book teems with important arguments and fascinating ideas. Focusing centrally on Wong Kar-wai’s deployment of preexisting music, Biancorosso advances original and fertile notions such as the director-as-recomposer. An important and timely book.” - Gary Bettinson, author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance

“This is a helpful, even necessary, rethink of what borrowing means and how it might paradoxically contribute to artistic innovation. Whether you are a musicologist, a scholar of China, or just a fan of Wong’s work, you will undoubtedly benefit from Biancorosso’s insights.” - Andrew S. Emerson, Asian Studies Review

“Clearly and engagingly written. . . . The book makes you eager to explore the films of Wong Kar-wai more deeply, and it’s highly recommended.” - Andy Hamilton, The Wire