Director, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Giorgio BIANCOROSSO is the author of Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2016) and the co-founder and editor of the journal SSS (Sound Stage Screen). He is currently completing for Duke University Press a monograph on musical borrowing in Wong Kar Wai’s cinema. His work on the history and theory of listening practices reflects a long-standing interest in musical aesthetics, film music, and the history of global cinema. Biancorosso studied music history and film studies at the University of Rome and King's College,London, before moving to Princeton University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in musicology in 2001. Aside from film music, film criticism, and musical aesthetics, his interests include musical dramaturgy and the psychology of music. Biancorosso is also active as a programmer and dramaturg. His staging of The Longest Days and the Shortest Days, a tech-cantata by Eugene Birman, was premiered at the Gulbenkian Auditorium (Lisbon) in September 2022.
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2024Remixing Wong Kar Wai: Musical Borrowing and the Aesthetics of Oblivion (Duke University Press, forthcoming).2024Scoring Italian Cinema: Patterns of Collaboration, contributing editor, with R.Calabretto (Routledge: forthcoming).
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2025“When is Film Music? Synchronisation as Empirical Art,“ commissioned for Music, Sound and Global Modernism, ed. By D. Grimley – S. Lee (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in progress).
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2024“The Composer as ‘Auteur’: Tan Dun, Hero and the Musical Appropriation of Wuxia,” in Music in Chinese Media, ed. R. Cheung - K. Donnelly (Edimburgh University Press, forthcoming).
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2024“A Gentle Usurpation: The Music of Fellini’s La strada.” In Scoring Italian Cinema, edited by G. Biancorosso – R. Calabretto (Routledge, forthcoming).
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2014"The Big Screen and Verdi's Stage", in Verdi on Screen, ed. Delphine Vincent (Lausanne: L'age de l'homme, 2014.), 187-206.
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2013"A Global Vernacular? Musing on European Art Music in Hong Kong." Musica Docta 3.
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2010"The Shark in the Music." Music Analysis 29 (1-3): 306-333.
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2009"The Harpist in the Closet: Film Music as Epistemological Joke." Music and the Moving Image 2 (3): 11-33.
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2007"Romance, Insularity, and Representation: Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love and Hong Kong Cinema." Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures 1 (1): 88-95.
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2001"Beginning Credits and Beyond: Music and the Cinematic Imagination." Echo: A Music-Centered Journal 3 (1).
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2007Review of Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-existing Music in Film, edited by Phil Powrie and Robynn Stilwell. Current Musicology 83: 167-173.
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2004"Micromanaging Tradition." Review of "Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice," a multi-media exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory, and Criticism 1 (2): 75-83.
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2023Visiting International Scholar, Kyoto University (Autumn Semester)
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2017Awarded Research Output Prize, Faculty of Art, HKU
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2010Awarded Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2008/09, HKU2001-2004Mellon Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University (New York)
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(on sabbatical)