TY - CHAP
T1 - Invasion, Takeover, and Disappearance
T2 - Post-Cold War Fear in Hong Kong SAR Sci-Fi Film
AU - Ng, Kenny K.K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2023/10/29
Y1 - 2023/10/29
N2 - This chapter examines a cult film formation in Hong Kong SAR cinema-The Midnight After, directed by Fruit Chan and released in 2015-as symptomatic of a post-Cold War fear of death, morbidity, and the disappearance of humankind and their pasts. In the dystopian science-fiction story, the impossibility of imagining the city’s decolonial and postnational futures are displaced by the fear of an unknown authority conducting destructive scientific experiments on the citizens. The film asks viewers to decide for themselves how to keep the storytelling going, and to reimagine how an alternative diverse society can be worked out.
AB - This chapter examines a cult film formation in Hong Kong SAR cinema-The Midnight After, directed by Fruit Chan and released in 2015-as symptomatic of a post-Cold War fear of death, morbidity, and the disappearance of humankind and their pasts. In the dystopian science-fiction story, the impossibility of imagining the city’s decolonial and postnational futures are displaced by the fear of an unknown authority conducting destructive scientific experiments on the citizens. The film asks viewers to decide for themselves how to keep the storytelling going, and to reimagine how an alternative diverse society can be worked out.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-CoFuturisms/Taylor-Lavender-III-Dillon-Chattopadhyay/p/book/9780367330613
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85177507304&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780429317828-43
DO - 10.4324/9780429317828-43
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85177507304
SN - 9780367330613
SN - 9781032557649
T3 - Routledge Literature Handbooks
SP - 421
EP - 429
BT - The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms
A2 - Taylor, Taryne Jade
A2 - Lavender III, Isiah
A2 - Dillon, Grace L.
A2 - Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva
PB - Routledge
CY - New York; Oxon
ER -
