Reflection of Lecture 6: Moving House

There are many people in a traditional family for many generations especially in the countryside of China, meaning that a person may have a lot of siblings as well as many relatives. And it is also a tradition for the whole family to worship their ancestors together. They also pay attention to the feng shui of the place and the metaphorical meaning behind something or somewhere. I think even today with the rapid development of technology which may bring a result of the disappearance of such a culture or the physical place where the tradition of the culture happens, we

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Reading Response: Katarzyna Ancuta

Films serve as an effective and compelling medium to reflect the underlying contemporary societal issues and ghost-themed movies are no exception to this. In light of the introduction of neoliberal urbanism happening in Japan and South Korea, traditional communities are dissolving and fading. The portrayal of ghosts in movies in such cities are used to depict the ongoing migration from rural to urban areas which also evokes the theme of loneliness and social isolation. The deteriorated high-rise apartments shown in ghost-themed movies serve to isolate the socially marginalised inhabitants and the non-living from the outside world as if nothing exists

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