In Loving Memory
「為了證實自己的存在，古老的記憶比未來的瞭望更明晰、親切。」──張愛玲〈自己的文章〉《流言》 「我在你自戀的鏡像中看見自己，欣喜若狂。」──佚名 鬼魅、雙城、對話 人總有一死，文本卻生生不息，新的文本在連綿不絕的文化承傳、革新和交流中再生逝去的人與事。我們不得不承認，許多時候，歷史傳統對當下上下求索的眾生來說，有若揮之不去的鬼魅，創作者必須竭力驅魔，「破舊立新」，解開心結。改編小說為電影的人，也常常把舊的文本輪迴再生，在創新和忠於原著的衝突中，尋求出路。若說原著小說有時像鬼魅般纏繞改編者，也沒有誇大其辭。但曾幾何時，在鬼影幢幢的新文本內，我們看見「過去」與「現在」彷彿一對好友知己，在斷裂的歷史脈絡中促膝談心。
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The following dialogues with film critics in the PRC and Macau were conducted over a period of one month in 2004. [1] [open notes in new window] While there are some changes in the independent film scenes in the PRC and Hong Kong ever since these interviews were done, their views and observations offer us useful understanding of Chinese independent […]
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This paper attempts to theorize the intricate relations among built space, cinema and the changing city.
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Hong Kong literary critic Wong Wai-leung claims that Hong Kong literature integrated with modern Chinese literature during World War II, when Hong Kong became the stopover for refugee writers from the mainland. It is true that for a few decades Hong Kong literature was mainly produced by writers either passing through or residing temporarily in Hong Kong. However, this mainland-based […]
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Wayne Wang’s Chinese Box (1997) is a film about trauma, amnesia andfantasy. Just as trauma is a symptom of history and fantasy is asymptom of amnesia, this paper is an attempt to engage in asymptomatic reading of the film. As a coded, ciphered form, a symptom calls for interpretation since “there is no symptom without an addressee,” as Slavoj Zizek […]
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In Hong Kong film history, the emergence of a corpus of film productions loosely called “horror films” in the 1980s has invited film critic to adopt an allegorical approach to the reading of Hong Kong films. What figures centrally in this film discourse is the trope of Hong Kong as a haunted house. In the introduction to the programme notes […]
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【節錄】本書以香港文學為題，自有必要先釐清香港文學的觀念。香港文學從來難以界定，不同看法萬端叢脞，雜亂紛陳，而本書所收文章的「香港文學」亦各有不同意涵。本書無意在定義上壐作詳細的討論，寧對香港文學採較靈活的定義。借鄭樹森的說法，香港文學可有狹義和廣義的兩種，前者是指「出生或成長於香港的作家在香港寫作、發表和結集的作品」，後者則包括「過港的、南來暫住又離港的、僅在台灣發展的、移民外國的」，而兩者之間「隨着時間的流逝，有時不免又得重新界定」。[…]
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Abstract: This paper examines the formation of modernity in three colonialist epics of Hong Kong and the recent historical and fictional works that aim to rewrite the history of the ‘local’. Adopting a challenge-response structure, the paper argues that the colonialist epics construct a monolithic discourse of modernity-as-progress via the amnesia of conflicts, tensions, and processes of domination and negotiation […]
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