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[Reading Response 2]-In search of the Ghostly in context

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“In Search of the Ghostly in Context” offers a fascinating analysis of how Fruit Chan’s film captures the spirit of estrangement within Hong Kong’s urban setting by utilizing the architecture of public housing estates and historic districts. The reading deftly explores how these locales are portrayed—not just as actual places, but also as vessels for haunting memories and socioeconomic inequality that highlight the more sinister aspects of the city’s quick industrialization and historical changes. The article emphasizes how architectural space profoundly affects cinematic story and character identity, especially considering Hong Kong’s transformation both before and after the handover in 1997.

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[Reading Response 2] Migratory Cities

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I think when the cities can move, they are not ‘city’ anymore. Instead, they should be called transportation tools. There are many transportation can move people from place to place while they can work, entertain, and live on machines such as aircraft carriers, trains, airships, and rockets. Similar stories can be told by changing the ‘city’ to other carriers such as pirate ships, then the story becomes “One Piece”, stronger pirates engulf weaker pirates. The main character trying to defect the strong pirates to get treasure. In the idea of moving to a residential place, I think of the vehicle

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[READING RESPONSE]The Multilevel Metropolis–XIONG Na Zona 3036260345

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Reimagining Urban Skyways: Balancing Innovation with Sustainability in City Planning The authors elucidate the frequently disregarded yet crucial impact of urban skyways on city spatial patterns. Despite their widespread use around the world, these raised walkways haven’t been closely studied enough, which leads me to reconsider the broader effects and challenges that come with using them on a large scale. The text underscores the nexus between skyways and urban space creation, noting their adoption for aggregating transportation, commercial activities, and property value. Looking forward, as we think about where city planning is headed, it seems crucial to me to think

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[Reading Response 2] Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City

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This reading had pointed out that urban condition is to represent normalcy. I do not agree about this statement. Although the image of city to many people is lethargic, because the whole environment is made of concrete and steel. Seems like it will always be the same. But, in fact, city is keep changing. In different generation, city will change into different form to satisfy the living condition of the people at that time. For example, in the 80s, we can see a lot of signage on the street as Hong Kong is experiencing an economic takeoff. People are passionate

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[READING RESPONSE] In Search of the Ghostly in Context: Esther M. K. Cheung

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Representational Space, politics, class and urban Hong Kong are featured in various movies, and a brief history of domestic public housing is probed into. Using Ghost as a movie agent not only express defamiliarization and uncanniness but introduce supernatural power that seems to be infinitely powerful in a space that belongs to powerless people (i.e. lower income groups). We witness an outburst of movies on metaphysical genre in the 70s to 90s, but its influences couldn’t be overseen. The political fear shared among community, revolving around the uncertainty and disjointed emotions raised from the future returning of sovereignty of Hong

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[Reading response 2] Oh No, There Goes Tokyo

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In the paper “Oh No, There Goes Tokyo”, the author uses Tokyo’s frequent appearance in “apocalypse pop culture” as an inspiration to explore why these pop cultures appear so often, how they reflected different state of the Japan’s society in the past few decades, and their impact to the Japan’ society. The part I like the most is the changing styles and topics of apocalyptic films with relation to the social events that is happening in Japan, because I never realised when I was watching these films that they have so much connection. From post atomic bomb film like Karumen

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Reading Response 2: In Search of the Ghostly in Context : Esther M. K. Cheung

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‘In Search of the Ghostly in Context’ discusses how Fruit Chan’s film explores estrangement through uncanny city spaces: low-cost public housing estates and old neighbourhoods in Hong Kong. He considered these places as the representation of the darker side of Hong Kong, such as social and economic inequality. These spaces are represented through lighting, warped space and shadow in the films, providing questions about the presence, absence, visibility, invisibility, appearance and reality of Hong Kong. In addition, Chan addresses the sense of rootlessness and displacement in the modern city, giving those who have been forgotten by the city an opportunity

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Reading response 2 “In Search of the Ghostly in Context” Ma Yin Lam Minnie

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Reading response 2 In Search of the Ghostly in Context         Ma Yin Lam Minnie “In Search of the Ghostly in Context” is a book chapter in the monography “Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong” written by a late local scholar Esther Cheung, who conducted a sophisticated analysis of the surreal characteristics of this low-budget movie in terms of their formations and purposes. Apart from public housing development, she also demonstrated the influences of socioeconomic context in cinema production. I was highly impressed by the argument of Cheung “Made in Hong Kong in fact contains a number of shots depicting the

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[Reading Response 2] Imagining Urban Futures By Carl Abbott

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3036228385 Cheung Chun Yu In most of the movies, cities are always described as a moveable space. The cities in these films look like robots or a massive public transport system, for example trains, ships, fleets. Cities are moving to search for the best living place and the most resources for people to live. Besides, some cities are built outside the Earth. In some movies, the Earth is already not a great planet for people to live on. It lacks resources and suitable places for people to live.   Another characteristic of the future city is that it is well

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[Reading Response 2]-In search of the Ghostly in context

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The representational space of In Search of Ghostly Contexts is an important platform for marginalized individuals to fight for their rights and solve social inequalities. Made in Hong Kong, a film by Fruit Chan, addresses this inequity by integrating its critique into the larger socio-political framework of Hong Kong’s upcoming political transfer. In Made in Hong Kong, Susan’s suicide highlights the inequitable living conditions generated by government neglect and represents the decay and ghostliness of Hong Kong’s urban landscape.   Prior to the handover in 1997, Hong Kong saw a significant political upheaval uncertainty. Such worries are reflected in films

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