Invasion, Takeover, and Disappearance: Post-Cold War Fear in Hong Kong SAR Sci-Fi Film

Kenny K.K. Ng

doi:10.4324/9780429317828-43

Invasion, Takeover, and Disappearance: Post-Cold War Fear in Hong Kong SAR Sci-Fi Film

Kenny K.K. Ng^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Academy of Film

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms
Editors	Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
Place of Publication	New York; Oxon
Publisher	Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
Chapter	39
Pages	421-429
Number of pages	9
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781000934076, 9780429317828
ISBN (Print)	9780367330613, 9781032557649
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429317828-43
Publication status	Published - 29 Oct 2023

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