Wong Kar-wai: Auteur of Time
by Stephen Teo


Book Description


This, the first book-length study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai, provides an overview of his career and in-depth analyses of his seven feature films to date. The study also takes an intriguing look at Wong's commercials for the likes of Motorola, BMW, and Lacoste and at his music video for DJ Shadow. Stephen Teo probes Wong's cinematic and literary influences--from Martin Scorsese and Alfred Hitchcock to Manuel Puig and Haruki Murakami--yet shows how Wong transcends them all. This comprehensive and thoroughly accessible study confirms Wong's position as the star of the Hong Kong-global nexus and as a postmodern exemplar of world cinema.
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In mah point of view, i reckon Teo provides very lil insight into wkw's aesthetic, he has figured out wkw in part because he understands the enigmatic director on so many stages/levels.Parts of warching movies is trying to figure them out on one level and then to try to catch other levels or layers on a second viewing. In the book, where Teo reads wkw as intensity 'local' and 'global', he suggests that wkw has brings up his iconoclastic; yet, teo explores wkw's work in HK culture as well as wkw's historial context. I reckon this is a book that really tell explored wkw's work, the way of working, and discuss his films in a way that is meaningful.