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Author : Mengyang Cui
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781581123807

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The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai: Chinese and Western Culture Differences in Narrative Cinemas by Mengyang Cui Pdf

Wong Kar wai is one of the most famous Chinese directors in modern filmdom. The cinema of Wong Kar wai is important 20th century cinema in 90 s Hong Kong society, which was in a post-industrial and post-colonial situation. In this paper, I have chosen four of Wong s films: As Tears Go By (1988), Happy Together (1997), In The Mood For Love (2000) and compared them respectively with American and British films Mean Streets (1973), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and Brief Encounter (1945) with similar themes. These comparisons will be used in order to explore the spiritual tendency of Wong s cinema, and to discover its meanings within the context of Chinese culture. In addition, the aim will be to demonstrate the methods of imitation, reproduction and the mixing up of genres that are Wong Kar wai s aesthetic strategy, which helped him to express his particular thematic, stylistic characteristics and establish his unique auteur status.

Author : Charlie Henry
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781613252864

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Kar-Kraft by Charlie Henry Pdf

The story of Kar-Kraft began, as did many others in the automotive industry, with an axe to grind. In 1963, Ford was seriously interested in purchasing Ferrari. Ferrari was a legendary brand with considerable success in racing, and Ford saw the acquisition as a great way to be instantly successful in the racing arena. When Enzo Ferrari realized that Ford would not give him complete control of the racing program, he backed out of the deal late in the process. Ford had spent millions in vetting and audits, which then set in motion a vengeful response against Ferrari. The result was the unthinkable: Ford beat Ferrari at Le Mans. Ford wanted to become competitive quickly, but it did not have the race history or resources in house. To remedy the situation, Ford searched the U.K. for an independent company to help accelerate its race car development. It first settled on Lola Cars and set up Ford Advanced Vehicles. Later, Ford brought its LeMans effort to the U.S. and the Kar-Kraft relationship was established. Although Kar-Kraft was technically an independent company, it really only had one customer: Ford Special Vehicles. Kar-Kraft's story doesn't begin and end with the GT 40 that took the win away from Ferrari at Le Mans. Ford expanded upon the program and organized an all-out assault on racing in general. Cars were prepared for Trans-Am, NASCAR, NHRA, and Can-Am competition. Street versions of the Boss 429 were assembled under its roof. And fabled prototypes including the LID Mustang, Boss 302 Maverick, and Mach 2C were all assembled in Ford's contracted race shop. And then, out of the blue, its doors closed for good on a cold day in 1970. History tells us that Ford won Le Mans, the Daytona 500, and the Trans-Am championship. But it doesn't tell us how this was accomplished. Author Charlie Henry (a former Kar-Kraft employee) has enlisted the help of many of his former co-workers to bring you the very first book ever published on Ford's all-encompassing special projects facility, Kar-Kraft. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial}

Author : Silver Wai-ming Lee,Micky Lee
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496812872

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Wong Kar-wai by Silver Wai-ming Lee,Micky Lee Pdf

Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only makes art for a few high-brow critics. However, Wong’s interviews show this Hong Kong auteur is candid about the art of filmmaking, even surprising his interlocutors by suggesting his films are commercial and made for a popular audience. Wong’s achievements nevertheless feel like art-house cinema. His third film, Chungking Express, introduced him to a global audience captivated by the quick and quirky editing style. His Cannes award-winning films Happy Together and In the Mood for Love confirmed an audience beyond the greater Chinese market. His latest film, The Grandmaster, depicts the life of a kung fu master by breaking away from the martial arts genre. In each of these films, Wong Kar-wai’s signature style—experimental, emotive, character-driven, and timeless—remains apparent throughout. This volume includes interviews that appear in English for the first time, including some that appeared in Hong Kong magazines now out of print. The interviews cover every feature film from Wong’s debut As Tears Go By to his 2013 The Grandmaster.

Author : Martha P. Nochimson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118424247

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A Companion to Wong Kar-wai by Martha P. Nochimson Pdf

With 25 essays that embrace a wide spectrum of topics and perspectives including intertextuality, transnationality, gender representation, repetition, the use of music, color, and sound, depiction of time and space in human affairs, and Wong’s highly original portrayal of violence, A Companion to Wong Kar-Wai is a singular examination of the prestigious filmmaker known around the world for the innovation, beauty, and passion he brings to filmmaking. Brings together the most cutting edge, in-depth, and interesting scholarship on arguably the greatest living Asian filmmaker, from a multinational group of established and rising film scholars and critics Covers a huge breadth of topics such as the tradition of the jianghu in Wong's films; queering Wong's films not in terms of gender but through the artist's liminality; the phenomenological Wong; Wong's intertextuality; America through Wong's eyes; the optics of intensities, thresholds, and transfers of energy in Wong's cinema; and the diasporic presence of some ladies from Shanghai in Wong's Hong Kong Examines the political, historical, and sociological influence of Wong and his work, and discusses his work from a variety of perspectives including modern, post-modern, postcolonial, and queer theory Includes two appendices which examine Wong’s work in Hong Kong television and commercials

Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839021275

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Wong Kar-Wai by Stephen Teo Pdf

This study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai provides an overview of his career and in-depth analysis of his seven feature films to date. Teo probes Wong's cinematic and literary influences - from Martin Scorsese to Haruki Murakami - yet shows how Wong transcends them all.

Author : D. Misra,S. De Gendt,M. Houssa,K. Kita,D. Landheer
Publisher : The Electrochemical Society
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781607688181

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Semiconductors, Dielectrics, and Metals for Nanoelectronics 15: In Memory of Samares Kar by D. Misra,S. De Gendt,M. Houssa,K. Kita,D. Landheer Pdf

Author : Peter Brunette
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252095474

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Wong Kar-wai by Peter Brunette Pdf

Called the leading heir to the great directors of post-WWII Europe and lavished with awards, Wong Kar-wai has redefined perceptions of Hong Kong's film industry. Wong's visual brilliance and emphasis on atmosphere over action have set him apart from peers while earning him an admiring international audience. In the Mood for Love regularly appears on lists of the twenty-first century's greatest films while critics and filmgoers recognize works like Chungking Express and Happy Together as modern classics. Peter Brunette describes the ways in which Wong's supremely haunting visual films create a new form of cinema by telling a story with stunning, suggestive visual images and audio tracks rather than character, dialogue, and plot. As he shows, Wong's early background in genre film offers fascinating insights on his more studied later works. He also delves into Wong's perennial themes of time, love, and loss and examines the political implications of his films, especially concerning the handover of former British colony Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

Author : Gary Bettinson
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789888139293

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The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai by Gary Bettinson Pdf

The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong’s filmmaking techniques uses a poetics approach to examine how form, music, narration, characterization, genre, and other artistic elements work together to produce certain effects on audiences. Bettinson argues that Wong’s films are permeated by an aesthetic of sensuousness and “disturbance” achieved through techniques such as narrative interruptions, facial masking, opaque cuts, and other complex strategies. The effect is to jolt the viewer out of complete aesthetic absorption. Each of the chapters focuses on a single aspect of Wong’s filmmaking. The book also discusses Wong’s influence on other filmmakers in Hong Kong and around the world. The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai will appeal to all who are interested in authorship and aesthetics in film studies, to scholars in Asian studies, media and cultural studies, and to anyone with an interest in Hong Kong cinema in general, and Wong’s films in particular. “In this carefully written study, Gary Bettinson offers a critical assessment not only of the stylistic features of Wong Kar-wai’s films but also of the scholarship that has developed around them. Arguing against the facile culturalism that tends to dominate such scholarship, this book does full justice to Wong’s cinematic methods in a series of impressively well-informed and informative readings.” —Rey Chow, Duke University

Author : Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622095847

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Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time by Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned martial arts novelist Jin Yong, Wong Kar-wai has created a very different kind of martial arts film, which invites close and sustained study.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. Placing the film in historical and cultural context, Dissanayake discusses its vision, imagery, visual style, and narrative structure. In particular, he focuses on the themes of mourning, confession, fantasy, and kung fu movies, which enable the reader to gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the film.

Author : Maximilian Wegener,Jannes Eiben
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783656431640

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Capital Structure Policy: Kleen Kar Inc. by Maximilian Wegener,Jannes Eiben Pdf

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 9, Maastricht University (SBE), course: intermediate financial management (IFM), language: English, abstract: Questions 1A) Business risk is the risk to firm’s stockholders without debt. Business risk can be measured by the standard deviation (later referred to as: SD) of “return of capital invested” ROIC= (EBIT (1-T))/Capital. Typical sources of business risk are factors associated with day-to-day operations of the business, such as input price-, demand-, sales price- and currency variability or the ability to innovate and the extent of operating leverage used. The establishment of long-term contracts can mitigate business risk with suppliers or distributors or with hedging strategies in case of currency risks. On the other hand, financial risk is the risk stockholders bear, because of the use of debt. In the case of debt usage the stockholders bear all the business risk, because debt holders receive a fixed interest payment. 1B/C) The additional risk from the debt can be measured, if one compares the levered beta to the unlevered beta. The levered beta should be higher than the unlevered and therefor react more severe to broad market movements, reflecting the additional risk. Moreover, since the beta is part of the CAPM model, the required return for equity holders rises which makes perfect sense, since equity holders want to be compensated for the additional risk from financial leverage. Leverage increases stockholders ROE, because the denominator of (Net income)/Equity is smaller since V_L consists of debt and equity, in contrast to a all equity financed company. Finally one can compare the SD of a levered and unlevered firm. The higher ROE comes at the cost of an increased SD, because of the higher variability of ROE.

Author : Sir Monier Monier-Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Hindustani language
ISBN : OXFORD:N14035695

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A Practical Hindústání Grammar by Sir Monier Monier-Williams Pdf

Author : Robley Dunglison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:HC18ER

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A Dictionary of Medical Science ... by Robley Dunglison Pdf

Author : Leon Smith,Henry Hamilton (teacher)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : English language
ISBN : NLI:3179023-10

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The International English and French Dictionary by Leon Smith,Henry Hamilton (teacher) Pdf

Author : Alexander Spiers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : English language
ISBN : CHI:12803782

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The Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages ... by Alexander Spiers Pdf

Author : Alexander Spiers,Gabriel Surenne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3L8G

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The Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages, in Two Parts ... by Alexander Spiers,Gabriel Surenne Pdf