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.

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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

Published

2014-11-28