[READING RESPONSE] In Search of the Ghostly in Context: Esther M. K. Cheung
Representational Space, politics, class and urban Hong Kong are featured in various movies, and a brief history of domestic public housing is probed into. Using Ghost as a movie agent not only express defamiliarization and uncanniness but introduce supernatural power that seems to be infinitely powerful in a space that belongs to powerless people (i.e. lower income groups). We witness an outburst of movies on metaphysical genre in the 70s to 90s, but its influences couldn’t be overseen. The political fear shared among community, revolving around the uncertainty and disjointed emotions raised from the future returning of sovereignty of Hong
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