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| Media
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| 2005
-The 'space' of Made in Hong Kong |
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In
this paper, marginalized community struggling against dominant
disciplines, principles, norms, conventions, or a set of ruling
ideological concepts in Hong Kong are discussed through Fruit
Chan movie. Fruit Chan is an independent director in Hong Kong.
In 1997, the grand narrative of the handover of Hong Kong
sovereignty inspired him to produce his first significant
series, what so called 'The trilogy of 1997'. Rather than
concentration on political issues in 1997, Fruit Chan concerns
about the living situation of marginalized or subordinate group
of people who are always ignored in our society. This series
includes three films, Made in Hong Kong, The Longest Summer and
Little Cheung. The main themes of these three films are diverse
but similar. The story of Made in Hong Kong is talking about
three 'problematic' juveniles. These three juveniles are
discontented with manipulation and irresponsibility of adult
world. The story of The Longest Summer is describing five
retired soldiers who are trying very hard to survive. These five
retired soldiers ascribe their unstable conditions to the leave
of British government. Finally, the story of Little Cheung is
narrating the experience of a pair of little boy and girl who
both live in Tsim Sha Tsui ¡V Mongkok district. Living in the
masses, these two children are striving to live in their own way
in facing the influence of the political changes of Hong Kong.
'The trilogy of 1997' presents us a comprehensive description of
the anxieties and concerns of ordinary Hong Kong people in the
angle of three different age groups, juvenile, adult, child.
'The
trilogy of 1997' is Fruit Chan's representative films. In his
film, he puts emphasis on the voices of subordinate and
marginalized groups. 1997 is a critical year in Hong Kong
history. This year seems everything is undergoing a change,
particularly the change of Hong Kong people. Rather than
analysis of the political issues in 1997, I am interested in
discussion on the 'space' in which subordinate groups are
struggling with the governed dominant power. In the following,
the conceptualization of 'space' theories will be introduced and
then followed by the analysis of 'The trilogy of 1997' ------
Made in Hong Kong. |
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| 2005
-The 'space' of The Longest Summer |
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Fruit Chan puts
a great effort on representation of the marginalized and
subordinate group of people. 1997 is a critical year which
labels not only the end of colonial period, but also the returns
of Hong Kong region to its hometown. In this paper, instead of
analyzing the political issues, I am interested in the topic,
'space', in which subordinate groups are struggling with the
governed dominant power. In the following, a literature review
of Fruit Chan studies and theoretical framework will be
introduced and then followed by methodology and analysis of 'the
trilogy of 1997' ------ The Longest Summer. |
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| 2005
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Postmodern version of a classical literature: Romeo and
Juliet |
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In this paper, a classical Shakespeare's literature, Romeo and
Juliet, is going to be analyzed in a postmodern angle through a
movie. Baz Luhrmann produced a movie, Romeo + Juliet, in
1996. In his film, Baz Luhrmann tries to adapt a classical
literature into a postmodern film through a great dual of
transformation in term of mise-on-scene, plot and narrative,
characters and theme and motifs. The story of Romeo and Juliet
is repackaged in a postmodern city. It provides audience with a
postmodern possible way to understand a classical and
traditional story. |
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| 2005
- Postmodern style: Wong Kar Wai's Movies
(wrote with teammates) |
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Wong Kar Wai is well known for his postmodern style among
different local film directors. In this paper, discussion of
postmodernism style with the example of Wong Kar Wai's movies is
presented through asking a question, how postmodernism is shown
in Wong Kar Wei's movies? The inclusion of Wong's movies is
As Tears Go By,
Days of Being Wild,
ChingKing Express,
Ashes of Time,
Fallen Angels,
Happy Together,
In the Mood for Love
and
2046.
Apart from
As Tears Go By,
almost all his movies are arguable to be 'postmodern'. In
the following, there are two sections, theorizing postmodernism,
and the analysis of movies. In the section of theorizing
postmodernism, a postmodernist, Fredric Jameson, claims that
postmodern text should more or less contain a certain kind of
styles. In the section of the analysis of movies, Wong's movies
is going to be systematically studied in terms of Jameson's
postmodernism styles, time
and space, intertextuality, pastiche, decentralization,
hybridity/fragmentation, schizophrenia and nostalgia. Finally,
instead of conclusion a critique will be drawn onwards. |
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| 2005
- The 'space' of
Little Cheung |
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A
pair of marginalized boy and girl is focused through their
different ways of resistances against the system of dominant
adult society in Hong Kong. An independent director Fruit Chan
produces a series of films which are talking about the social
impacts of handover of Hong Kong sovereignty, namely 'the
trilogy of 1997'. Rather than posing the angle of political
issues, his 'the trilogy of 1997' discusses more on the living
situation of various peripheral groups of people who are labeled
as 'the outsider' in our society. 'The trilogy of 1997' consists
of three films, Made in Hong Kong (1997), The Longest
Summer (1998) and Little Cheung (2000). The
story of Made in Hong Kong is describing the experiences
of three 'problematic' juveniles who are discontented with
manipulation of adult world. The story of The Longest Summer
is narrating five retired soldiers who ascribe their
unstable living conditions to the irresponsible British colonial
government. Finally, the story of Little Cheung is
talking about the experience of a pair of little boy and girl in
Tsim Sha Tsui ¡V Mongkok district. Living in the masses, these
two children are striving in their own way as a rebellion to the
political changes of Hong Kong in 1997. 'The trilogy of 1997'
presents a rather comprehensive description of the anxieties and
concerns of ordinary people in the angle of three different age
groups, juvenile, adult, child. 1997 is a critical year which
labels not only the end of colonial period, but also the returns
of Hong Kong region to its hometown. |
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| 2005
- Cyberlove |
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Internet love
story seems quite bizarre in the early days, but the development
of technologies is really amazing. Technologies which define as
the science of industry and the mechanical or practical arts are
gradually developing with an unpredictable speed. Technologies
today probably no longer just understand in an explanation of
science, the amazing development even enlarges its definition to
the formation of human beings. Not only human network society
already heavily depends on technologies, but also sense
perception is also being re-constructed through a network of
messages, emotional icons, etc. Due to the transformation of
technologies, the dominance of traditional face-to-face
interaction in social community is subject to great challenges
and changes. Without facial communication, the importance of
mouth and ear becomes lesser which is similar to the results of,
the theorist McLuhan named, the extension of eye, in other
words, verbal communication is more or less replaced with
written communication. The formation of traditional social
community is also questioned or even threatened while a new
community which is based on written communication emerges as
virtual community. Living in this virtual community, human
beings seem to achieve some breakthroughs on the topic of
democracy, equity, fairness and openness. Similar to 'space' in
social community, 'cyberspace' could be regarded as a locus to
develop virtual community. While tons of people celebrate the
nature of cyberspace, find their lovers on Internet, and argue
its flexibilities could provide them with a brand new
idealistic, prefect and romantic society, I discover cyberspace
is not really a dreamland for lovers to live on. There are two
statements I am going to discuss. First, Internet loves as kind
of human relations always incorporate in the system of
capitalistic economy. Second, Internet love relationships are
very unstable and problematic. Before the analysis of these two
statements, literature review and a significant section the
formation of Internet love culture which also names cyberlove
are going to be addressed. |
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| 2005
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Analysis of Gender concept of Primary 2 to 4 pupils in HK |
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Gender
concept of primary 2 to 4 pupils (age from 8 to 10) in Hong Kong
is going to be studied through quantitative analysis of Chinese
and English textbooks. The importance of gender concept not only
constructs our value judgment in perception of different social
and individual issues, but also influences our mental and
psychological development. In gender studies, people argue
social construction plays a critical role to draw a set of
binary opposition between boys and girls, i.e., boy should do,
girls shouldn't do. In this paper, I am not going to challenge
the existence of gender concept, but I am interested in
examining the correctness and accuracy of the existent gender
concepts of primary pupils. In other words, gender education in
primary school is my focus. |
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