In the article “Noirs: The City, the Woman and Other Spaces”, Seng introduces the noir thriller genre during Hong Kong’s 1960s. Since in the late nineteenth century, female vigilantes played an important role in Hong Kong noir films and Seng introduces the use of female vigilante as protagonist, hence used the film Black Rose as an example. At that period of time, Black Rose is an aspirational figure whose social status is unattainable by the majority of working-class women, therefore, this film provides dramatic relief for the working-class women from the routineness and banality of factory work and housework.
in s society where contemporary critiques of the woman figure as the stereotypical sexualized subject, this idea is rather outstanding, which women in films is no longer presented for the male gaze, has definitely marked a breakthrough for the society.
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You have a structured recap of the reading, explaining how female vigilante is adopted in films serving as a dramatic relief for the working-class women in a heavily industrialized context. Yet, it will be great to see more of your personal ideas in the second half of your response, in attempt to explain how the narratives of the female vigilante relate to the idea of stereotypical sexualized subject.