The writing, Noirs: The City, the Woman, and Other Spaces, focus on the history of the film industry in Hong Kong during the 1960s. It introduced the major film genres to readers, namely the melodrama and the noir thriller set in a working and high society. Personally speaking, it makes me start to learn that film has become a mirror that reflects significant national issues, specifically in the text it is the great political, and cultural tensions in Hong Kong at that time. This article makes use of multiple classic films to support the use of the special method — using the image of the female with the help of space constructed in films to narrate the city. The city with the ongoing process of modernization and Industrialization was depicted by the method. More importantly about the use of film as a medium, films take the jobs of visualization and sharing social hope, which is what I have learned from after reading this article.
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