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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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L'érosion de la nuit et le nocturne dans l'oeuvre de Wong Kar-Wai

Poitras, Diane January 2007 (has links) (PDF)
L'enjeu de ce mémoire consiste à tenter de saisir, à travers l'oeuvre cinématographique de Wong Kar-wai, quelques indications sur la nature de notre rapport à la nuit dans le monde contemporain alors que celui-ci semble déterminé à faire disparaître la noirceur. Les activités diurnes de nos sociétés post-industrielles empiètent en effet de plus en plus sur la nuit: les commerces et les services demeurent ouverts de plus en plus tard, voire toute la nuit, les communications, surtout depuis l'arrivée d'Internet, sillonnent le globe 24 heures sur 24, faisant fi des fuseaux horaires. Laissant à d'autres le soin de mesurer les retombées sociologiques de ce phénomène, nous nous sommes proposé d'en questionner les effets sur notre rapport à la nuit tel qu'on peut le percevoir à travers le cinéma. Pour ce faire, l'oeuvre du cinéaste chinois Wong Kar-wai nous est apparu riche de possibilités. Non seulement le nocturne y est-il prépondérant, mais cette filmographie se situe résolument dans la contemporanéité autant par son propos que par son traitement. Nous avons regroupé les problématiques étudiées sous trois grands chapitres: il s'agit du traitement de la nuit comme expression d'une crise sociale, du traitement de l'espace et de ce qu'il révèle des rapports à l'intériorité et à l'intimité et enfin du traitement du temps et de ses implications sur l'approche narrative et en rapport à la modernité. Ces trois points d'accès à l'oeuvre de Wong Kar-wai permettront d'y vérifier la présence d'un être nocturne identifié lors d'un colloque consacré à la nuit au Centre de Cerisy en 2004. On progressera dans l'analyse en nous référant régulièrement à l'expressionnisme allemand et le film noir américain qui représentent deux pôles de référence incontournables pour le traitement de la nuit dans l'histoire du cinéma. Nos références théoriques sont principalement Les structures anthropologiques de l'imaginaire, de Gilbert Durand et L'origine de l 'oeuvre d'art, de Martin Heidegger. L'analyse nous amènera à constater, chez Wong Kar-wai, un glissement du Régime diurne au Régime nocturne de l'imaginaire et nous permettra de vérifier la pertinence de notre intuition initiale sur le caractère essentiel de la nuit dans notre relation au monde. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Cinéma, Film, Nuit, Nocturne, Wang Kar-wai.
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Modernist aesthetics in the films of Wong Kar-wai

Song, Jingjing 24 December 2014 (has links)
Wong Kar-wai is a premier avant-garde auteur of Hong Kong cinema. In the existing research, postmodernism is considered as a predominant approach to shed light on Wong’s aesthetics, poetics and politics. Being the iconoclastic ‘poet of time,’ Wong Kar-wai is extolled as a leading figure for his postmodernist style of visually unique and emotional resonant film works. Recurring motifs, such as alienation and rejection, time and memory, pursuit and loss, are regarded as representations of cultural and political anxieties of Hong Kong people in the context of 1980s and 1990s. Wong’s characteristic exoticism and cosmopolitism in his films also distinguishes him from other Chinese-language directors. However, when we expand the scope of the postmodern terrain, we find modernism and its attendant aesthetics are just as relevant and important as postmodernism to the understanding of Wong’s oeuvre. This thesis evokes a comparative perspective of modernism proposed by Eugene Lunn as an aesthetic approach, with an illustrative analysis by using David Bordwell’s and Kristin Thompson’s work on non-Hollywood cinema. This approach emphasizes four major directions of the social and cultural aspects influenced by modernism in art. Using this approach requires researchers to find cinematic representations of modernism in terms of aesthetic self-consciousness, juxtaposition of time, ambiguity and dehumanization within the film. This research takes Wong Kar-wai’sAshes of Time Redux (2008) as a case study to explore the alternative interpretations beyond postmodernism. The investigation of Wong’s uses of modernist approach involves the analysis of his experiments of conventional film techniques and strategic employment of the mise-en-scene, camera angles, lenses, lighting, and music, which constitute his pictorial world. My assertion is that Wong’s juxtaposition of time and space createsan elusive and ambiguous fictional world in response to his reflection on the dehumanization of an integral individual subject in the modernized world.
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Room 2046: A Political Reading of Wong Kar-Wai's Chow-Mo Wan Trilogy through Narrative Elements and Mise-en-scene

Baldwin, Jillian 12 1900 (has links)
As ownership of Hong Kong changed hands from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China in 1997, citizens and filmmakers of the city became highly aware of the political environment. Film director Wong Kar-Wai creates visually stimulating films that express the anxieties and frustrations of the citizens of Hong Kong during this period. This study provides a political reading of Days of Being Wild (1991), In the Mood for Love (2000), and 2046 (2004) through analyzing various story elements and details within the mise-en-scene. Story elements include setting, dialogue, character relationships, character identities, thematic motifs, musical references, numerology, and genre manipulation. Wong also uses details within the films' mise-en-scene, such as props and color, to express political frustrations. To provide color interpretations, various traditional aesthetic guidelines, such as those prescribed by Taoism, Cantonese and Beijing opera, and feng shui, are used to read the films' negative comments on the handover process and the governments involved. When studied together the three films illustrate how Wong Kar-Wai creates narrative and visual references to the time and atmosphere in which he works, namely pre-and-post handover Hong Kong.

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