Author: Nim Yan

Cat Links Final Video Essay

[Field-Homework 3] Metabolizing city: Hawker Stalls, Bowring Street

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    Credits At the beginning of the essay, I would like to give credit to our teaching team, for all the efforts they have given. Secondly, a thank you must be given to my teammate Liu Zihan, her ideas have deeply inspired me. The whole course and filming process would be indelible memories for me to preserve. Descriptions Back to the video itself, my keyword throughout the video is “Metabolism”, which implies that the buildings and people in the city are continuously reincarnating and repairing as time passes. The day market has provided energy (living necessities) to people, and

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Cat Links Lecture 7: Monsters, Materials & Skyscrapers

[Reading Response 2] Oh No, There Goes Tokyo, Leung Nim Yan

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After reading “Oh No, There goes Tokyo”, I would like to respond to the change of the image of giant creatures.  I agree with the point mentioned in the reading: the historical factor highly affects the image of giant monsters/ creatures in movies or TV series. During the WWII, Japan received two nuclear booms from the United States. I regard the original Gojira (monster) and the Ultraman (Alien) as two different perspectives towards unknown threats. They both represent the unhandled power in the Japanese perspective. Gojira, as a monster which has brought destruction towards Japan, was defeated by Japanese technology. This has

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Cat Links Lecture 3: The Post-war Asian City as Set

[Reading Response] Seng, E. (2020). Noirs: The City, the Woman and Other Spaces. In Resistant City: Histories, Maps and the Architecture of Development (pp. 60-77). World Scientific Press.

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The reading by Seng E. has shown that movies always reflect the historical background of their place of origin. In Hong Kong, though her filming has been greatly influenced by external factors, especially political ones. In addition, it did reflect some challenges and problems faced by people at that time and the ideal future for them. Seng suggests some examples like The Black Rose, the Elevator Girl, The Forsaken Love, etc. These two movies provided dramatic solutions for women who want relief from the grassroots. Seng comments on such movies as reinforcement of sexual stereotypes, which are ‘expectations of the

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