Geronimo Cristobal

Tag: cinema

  • Let’s Love Hongkong (dir. Yau Ching, 2002)

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                In Let’s Love Hongkong (dir. Yau Ching, 2002), the metropolis is presented as a lesbian dystopia where affections constantly get waylaid and no one seems to fall in love with the right person. Instead, everyone is addicted to cheap thrills and devices. The film revolves around the lives of three lesbians in Y2K-era Hong…

  • (The Eye, dir. Pang & Pang, 2008)

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    Traumas and wounds become embodied indexes of a nation’s technological and cultural transformation in the film, The Eye (2008). The horror story centers on 20-year old Wong Kar Mun, a Hong kong classical violinist who undergoes an eye cornea transplant. Regaining her sense of sight should be a blessing for Wong, but it becomes more…

  • Mae Nak (dir. Pimpaka Towira, 1992)

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    Images of devotion form the nexus of Thai religions and social life. As shown by Justin McDaniel’s ethnography on the shrines of Mae Nak, a well-known Thai female ghost based on a mother who dies in childbirth during the reign of King Rama IV (1804-1868). In his article, “The Agency Between Images,” McDaniel recounts his…

  • The Cinematic Metaverse: Hollywood Science Fiction and Silicon Valley’s Vision of the Future

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    Abstract This essay analyzes science fiction novels to reconstruct a partial literary genealogy of the Californian Ideology first described in 1995 by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, as a strange mixture of the counterculture hippie movement and the ideal of the free market. It addresses the ways in which writers and artists during the Cold…

  • In the mood for love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

    In the mood for love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

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    Hong Kong 1962: Ambitious newspaper editor Chow (Tony Leung Ka Fai) and shy secretary Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) are among the many immigrants who have fled to the British crown colony after the conquest of Shanghai by the Chinese Communists. Although both are married and receive a regular salary, they can afford only a subleased room…