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1. Demonstrates a thorough understanding of, and constructive engagement with, the course material/content to respond to the task 2. Provides insightful analyses, raises critical points 3. Ideas are clearly and fluently articulated through the text, including the title 4. Ideas are clearly expressed visually and technically well-executed 5. Innovative thinking on the subject matter
For all you movie enthusiasts, we have compiled a shortlist of film-related organizations, festivals and events related to Hong Kong’s dynamic arts and cultural development. We hope that you will find this helpful in enriching and deepening your continued experience of Hong Kong cinema! Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival: here Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS): here Hong Kong Cine Fan: here Hong Kong Asian Film Festival (HKAFF): here Hong Kong Film Archive: here Featured image: Faded color-negative film (left) and the colored reverse image (right) of the film Colourful Youth, 1966. (Source: HK Film Archives)
Taught by Dr. Eunice Seng, this course examines how architecture and urbanism is represented in film and investigates how film influences and constructs the architecture of the city. Emerging as a twentieth-century phenomenon, the modern metropolis is the site of the most radical experiments of architects and planners, and an active subject in the imagination and actions of its diverse inhabitants. Film has a close relationship with the city and its architecture. How does architecture use its structure, form, enclosure, floor plans, materials and lighting to produce effects, evoke emotions and influence everyday lives? Likewise, how does film use space,
For those who are interested in reading more widely on the topics covered in this Architecture and Film course, we have compiled a shortlist of books, chapters and various publications that range in disciplines, including Architecture, Landscape Studies, Cinema and Media, Visual Theory and Aesthetics. The HKU Library is a useful place to start in finding some of these titles. If the university library does not have it in holdings, you may request it via another institution by submitting through HKALL request. AlSayyad, N. (2001). Hybrid urbanism: On the identity discourse and the built environment. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. Berger, J. (1972). Ways