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Cat Links Lecture 3: The Post-war Asian City as Set

reading response: Seng, E. (2020). Noirs: The City, the Woman and Other Spaces.

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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

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Cat Links Lecture 2: Filming the Asian City

Reading Response: Michel De Certeau or Nezar AlSayyad

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The thriving of the Chinese film industry began with cinema, particularly Shanghai’s which was initially vastly intertwined with the infiltration of Hollywood movies. It was intriguing to discover that not only did movie-watching provide an alternate amusement back then but also altered a societal fetishism towards the female given its discrepancy with the foreign. Surprisingly, the conservative convention has been deemed to be acceptable in the modern film industry. However, the lofty, ambitious idea to separate the movie world from reality remains today, to an extent, showed its importance and unchangeability in the film industry.   NG Hok Yiu BRYAN

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