Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Part One Introduction Wong Kar-wai: Invoking the Universal and the Local 3 Martha P. Nochimson Part Two Mapping Wong's Liminality 1 Transnational Wong 23 Ken Provencher 2 It is a Restless Moment: Wong Kar-wai and the Phenomenology of Flow 47 Joseph G. Kickasola 3 Wong Kar-wai and his jiang hu 80 Bérénice Reynaud Part Three Thresholds of Texture and Mood 4 Wong Kar-wai's Cinema of Repetition 115 Ackbar Abbas 5 Wong Kar-wai: The Optics of the Virtual 135 Angelo Restivo 6 Color Design in the Cinema of Wong Kar-wai 153 Shohini Chaudhuri 7 The Value of Re-exports: Wong Kar-wai's Use of Pre-existing Soundtracks 182 Giorgio Biancorosso Part Four In the Corridors of History and Culture 8 Wong's Ladies from Shanghai 207 Gina Marchetti 9 The Sinophone Cinema of Wong Kar-wai 232 Audrey Yue 10 New Queer Angles on Wong Kar-wai 250 Helen Hok-Sze Leung 11 "Pity about the furniture": Violence, Wong Kar-wai Style 272 Karen Fang 12 In the Mood for Food: Wong Kar-wai's Culinary Imaginary 295 Mike Ingham and Matthew Kwok-kin Fung 13 Chungking Express, Tarantino, and the Making of a Reputation 319 David Desser Part Five Close-up of Wong's Inflections of Time and Space 14 Chungking Express: Slow - Images - Ahead 347 Raymond Bellour (translated by Allyn Hardyck) 15 Wong Kar-wai: The Actor, Framed 353 Joe McElhaney 16 Infidelity and the Obscure Object of History 378 Vivian P.Y. Lee 17 Metonymy, Mneme, and Anamnesis in Wong Kar-wai 397 Thorsten Botz-Bornstein Part Six Focus on Individual Films 18 Serial, Sequelae, and Postcolonial Nostalgia: Wong Kar-wai's 1960s Hong Kong Trilogy 419 Yiman Wang 19 We Can't Go On Not Meeting Like This: Fallen Angels and Wong's Intertextuality 438 Martha P. Nochimson 20 The Third Reality: In the Mood for Love 462 Michel Chion (translated by Claudia Gorbman) 21 Cinephiliac Engagement and the Disengaged Gaze in In the Mood for Love 467 Yomi Braester 22 Wong's America, North and South: My Blueberry Nights and Happy Together 485 Ken Provencher 23 Queer Utopias in Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together 508 Carlos Rojas 24 Wong Kar-wai's Genre Practice and Romantic Authorship: The Cases of Ashes of Time Redux and The Grandmaster 522 Stephen Teo 25 Wong Kar-wai, Auteur and Adaptor: Ashes of Time and In The Mood for Love 540 Wai-ping Yau Filmography 558 Appendix I Wong Works in Television Chih-ting Chen 562 Appendix II Wong Works in Advertising Chih-ting Chen 569 Selected Bibliography 586 Index 600.