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Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema
This chapter investigates what I call “the paradox of appearance and disappearance of Hong Kong” in Western cinema over the past two decades. The city has in recent years appeared in a number of big-budget Hollywood productions (e.g. The Dark Knight, Transformers, Doctor Strange, Pacific Rim), attes...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120515/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7766-1_4 |
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description | This chapter investigates what I call “the paradox of appearance and disappearance of Hong Kong” in Western cinema over the past two decades. The city has in recent years appeared in a number of big-budget Hollywood productions (e.g. The Dark Knight, Transformers, Doctor Strange, Pacific Rim), attesting to its continuing visual and “exotic” appeal to Western audiences, reminding one of the role pre-handover Hong Kong played in the conception and design of Blade Runner. However, the real Hong Kong is often displaced in these films and supplanted by a recycled and stereotyped impression of the city’s skyline and urban landscape. The chapter looks at instances of Hong Kong being otherworlded and the implications for the Hong Kong identity in the global cinematic gaze. |
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spelling | pubmed-71205152020-04-06 Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema Ho, Tammy Lai-Ming Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong Article This chapter investigates what I call “the paradox of appearance and disappearance of Hong Kong” in Western cinema over the past two decades. The city has in recent years appeared in a number of big-budget Hollywood productions (e.g. The Dark Knight, Transformers, Doctor Strange, Pacific Rim), attesting to its continuing visual and “exotic” appeal to Western audiences, reminding one of the role pre-handover Hong Kong played in the conception and design of Blade Runner. However, the real Hong Kong is often displaced in these films and supplanted by a recycled and stereotyped impression of the city’s skyline and urban landscape. The chapter looks at instances of Hong Kong being otherworlded and the implications for the Hong Kong identity in the global cinematic gaze. 2017-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7120515/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7766-1_4 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Ho, Tammy Lai-Ming Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema |
title | Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema |
title_full | Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema |
title_fullStr | Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema |
title_full_unstemmed | Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema |
title_short | Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema |
title_sort | hong kong paradox: appearance and disappearance in western cinema |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120515/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7766-1_4 |
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