Author: Hoi Ying

Cat Links Lecture 6: Housing Stories

[Reading Response 2]: In Search of the Ghostly In Context

Posted on karinhoo

The book focuses on how Fruit Chan’s film defamiliarizes the city of Hong Kong, challenging the dominating genres at that time. He used spectral elements as a means to explore the city’s omitted problems and historical events. Chan’s film depicts haunted spaces as symbolic representations of large historical issues or repressed memories associated with those spaces, becoming a metaphorical reflection of the deeper issue that fills up the collective memory of the city. Chan describes the city as a place where ghosts gather, representing the dense history that is in tension with the act of remembering and sorrow. In the

Continue reading[Reading Response 2]: In Search of the Ghostly In Context

Cat Links Lecture 6: Housing Stories

In class exercise moving house reflection

Posted on karinhoo

After seeing the documentary, I feel sad for the family. Due to the land development for housing and other city development, the family are forced to move their ancestor’s grave away from the land to the modern grave land areas, causing the family to unable to undergo the tradition procedure of worshipping their ancestor. This documentary is a strong evidence that proves that the current century, people no longer put emphasize on culture and just cares about development and economy

Cat Links Uncategorized

Workshop 2 exercise Ho Hoi Yang

Posted on karinhoo

https://www.freepik.com/premium-ai-image/homeless-man-sitting-street-rain-night_63481291.htm The image shows a people sitting at the corner of the street, looking very hopeless and depress. While empty streets and yellow lights can emphasize his loneliness and depression, making the whole seen look more helpless and sad.

Cat Links Filming the Modern Asian City

[Reading Response]: Seng E Noirs: The City, The women and other spaces

Posted on karinhoo

This article discusses about the social status of women in Hong Kong Cinema during the 1960s especially in the genres of melodrama and noir thriller. The article shed light on the geopolitical tension and how gender inequality deteriorated accomplished by modernization of the city. The article used James bonds series on Hong Kong’s noir thriller genre and the prominence of female lead in Cantonese-language films. They emphasise women’s beauty, physical power and intelligence, which tried to tell the public that women can also be strong, independent and work in the society. In this article, they also discuss how movies utilise

Continue reading[Reading Response]: Seng E Noirs: The City, The women and other spaces