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後Cepa 時期香港電影懷舊想像中的「本土」身份書寫, Dan Shen Sep 2014

後Cepa 時期香港電影懷舊想像中的「本土」身份書寫, Dan Shen

Theses & Dissertations

2003 年中國內地與香港簽訂《內地與香港關於建立更緊密經貿關係的安排》(Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, 簡稱CEPA)。其中關於電影的條款放寬了香港電影進入內地的條件,加之龐大的市場需求,香港電影工業的跨境活動變得日益頻繁, 並開啟了新一輪的中港「合拍片」潮流。電影產業及其市場環境的轉變背後是更為深層的中港經濟、政治與文化的融合。香港從「九七」前後至今在新的政治空間及身份脈絡中不斷尋求「本土」位置顯得日益困難。電影作為流行文化文本和社會實踐曲折地表述「本土」、「自我」、「身份」,其中「懷舊」(nostalgia)便是近十年香港電影文化想像中一個顯著的憶述工具和路徑,亦即通過處理「過去」、歷史、集體記憶等來書寫「現在」的某種情感、經驗、欲望。

本論文以後CEPA 時期的香港電影為研究對象,檢閱以合拍片為主導的電影工業體制下,和香港近十年來文化政治脈絡中,不同類型、風格、主題,以及不同生產方式、製作規模、市場面向的香港電影懷舊想像與「本土」身份的互構關係。以及後CEPA 時代香港電影的懷舊想像與此前懷舊電影相比下的延續與新變。


Hidden Agenda? Cultural Policy In Hong Kong’S Urban Redevelopment, Tobias Zuser Sep 2014

Hidden Agenda? Cultural Policy In Hong Kong’S Urban Redevelopment, Tobias Zuser

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For many years industrial buildings in Hong Kong have formed some of the city’s most vibrant cultural clusters by providing local artists with low-cost space to pursue their creative work. However, recent efforts by the government also targeted these areas for commercial revitalization. By 2020 the industrial part of Kwun Tong, a densely populated district in Kowloon East, will not only have been transformed into the city’s second Central Business District, but also seen the majority of the current cultural workers leaving due to the rapid valorisation of land. Nevertheless, these ongoing struggles over spatial power have also opened up …


重讀八、九十年代的「恐怖喜劇」: 殭屍電影與香港後殖民, Yee Man, Mandy Liu Jan 2014

重讀八、九十年代的「恐怖喜劇」: 殭屍電影與香港後殖民, Yee Man, Mandy Liu

Theses & Dissertations

八十年代是香港電影工業的「黃金時期」,電影的類型也可說是「百花齊放」,當中包括了一批以「殭屍vs. 道士」為結構的電影,並廣受歡迎,直到九十年代初衰落。本論文就是以這批電影為研究對象,先借助電影研究中的類型研究的框架,從體裁說明這批電影本身就能自成一個類型/次類型──「恐怖喜劇」,繼而集中分析殭屍和道士這兩個主要角色,並指出這批電影其實是呼應著香港後殖民處境複雜的中港關係。

本研究提出電影中的殭屍和道士都是來自中國的「他者」,而且帶有不同程度的「怪物 性」,因此形成了不同的「自我」與「他者」的權力結構和張力。本文借用了後殖民研究的「我──他」框架以及怪物研究的「怪物性」概念,進一步解讀殭屍和道士的獨特性。最後,本文提出整個類型其實是以香港為本位,透過「馴化」殭屍和「吸納」道士來處理不同「中國他者」所引起的情緒與張力,並在流行文化中實現了中港融和的幻想。


Eurocentrism, Modernity And Chinese Sociality : An Ethnographic Study Of Everyday Socio-Cultural Life In New-Millennium China, Tung Yi Kho Jan 2014

Eurocentrism, Modernity And Chinese Sociality : An Ethnographic Study Of Everyday Socio-Cultural Life In New-Millennium China, Tung Yi Kho

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This dissertation seeks to contribute to our understanding of Eurocentrism, Modernity,and their impacts on traditional Chinese cultural formations. It is based on ethnographic research conducted in Shenzhen, South China and Qinghai, West China, and explores the impacts of Chinese modernization on everyday forms of sociality.

I conceive of Eurocentrism foremost as an Ontology, a mode-of-being grounded in a cosmology about the nature of reality and human being-and-becoming in the world. I argue that because Eurocentrism is an ontology predicated on materialism and individualism - “matter” being the basis of reality and the “individual”, the fundamental unit of society, respectively - …