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[Fieldwork 3] Disappearing Fragment of a City – Shing Fung Hong

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[Description]   The theme of the video is the ‘Disappearing Fragment of City’, whereas the subject is the diminishing of a local joss money store – Shing Fung Hong – due to its small amount of business, which is in drastic contrast with the surrounding busy market flow of Temple Street.    The video portrays the contrast of business between the Temple street stores and Shing Fung Hong.The business of the Temple street is first introduced, with loud audios of overlapping noise, crowded and constantly moving figures, as well as frequent interactions between business owners and potential customers all around

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[Mood Board] The disappearing fragment of Hong Kong City

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This collage shows the mood board for Hong Kong’s loud, busy and crowded Temple Street in contrast with the still, quiet and customer-less joss paper shop ‘Shing Fung Hong’ in one of the spaces of Temple Street. The night light reveals the vibrant and  colourful setting as a local and tourist attraction and hawker market, where the highly dense and speedy population flow brings out what seems to be a vibrance in local economy [right]. However it is revealed that what lies in Temple Street is a disappearing culture – the tradition of joss paper folding and burning is gradually

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[Reading Response 1] Noirs – The City The Woman and Other Spaces

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I believe the noir thrillers and melodramas from the 1960s signified the departure from old representations of women. Earlier films confined women on-screen to traditional roles like obedient housewives or supernatural virtuous heroines; but from the article, 1960 films like the Black Rose introduced complex characters, oscillating between high-society women and a professional of robbery. Female roles in an urban setting becomes intertwined and relatable – even if not, in a sense that navigating between cramped domestic spaces and the outside urban aesthetics poses as an ideal to females stuck in factory routines, serves as a visual relief to those

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