Popular songs and cinematic repertoire in Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole

Authors

  • Fabio Allan Mendes Ramalho UFPE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/contemporanea.v12i2.10651

Keywords:

Musicals. Repertoire. Body.

Abstract

In this article we seek to analyze Tsai Ming-liang's feature film The hole (1998), in order to discuss how its five musical moments are set as a response to the delay of the love encounter on the diegetic level. We also seek to highlight the ways by which popular songs and cinematic references are appropriated as means to enhance an affective investment in the repertoires of media culture. The assimilation of such repertoires relies on aesthetic operations of detour and displacement. We argue that instead of erasing the differences, those operations invest in the expressive potential of the disjunctions between disparate visual regimes.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Fabio Allan Mendes Ramalho, UFPE

PhD in Communications (UFPE), Master in Communications (same institution), Specialist in Cultural Journalism (UNICAP) and Graduated in Business (UPE), working in fields of research such as Communication, Aesthetics, Cinema, Literature, Cultural Criticism and Cultural Studies. E-mail: fabioallanm@gmail.com

Downloads

Published

2014-11-28

How to Cite

Ramalho, F. A. M. (2014). Popular songs and cinematic repertoire in Tsai Ming-liang’s The Hole. Contemporanea, 12(2), 305–322. https://doi.org/10.9771/contemporanea.v12i2.10651

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2014): Dossiê A canção popular na cena audiovisual: cinema, televisão e novas telas

Section

Dossiê Temático

License

Authors publishing in this journal must agree to the following copyright terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal Contemporanea and the Faculty of Communication of the Federal University of Bahia the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0), which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are authorized to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g., publishing in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post and distribute their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal website), as this can lead to productive exchanges, as well as increase the impact and citation of the published work.