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On the edge of spaces: Blade runner, ghost in the shell, and Hong Kong's cityscape
Author(s)
Date Issued
2000
Journal
ISSN
0091-7729
Citation
Science Fiction Studies, Mar 2000, vol. 27(1), pp. 1-21.
Type
Peer Reviewed Journal Article
Abstract
Sf films such as Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell take a deep interest in the Hong Kong urbanscape at the turn of the century. With its history of dislocation, migration, and marginality in its colonial days, Hong Kong emerges as a model city for the sf genre Of “future noir”; its overcrowded, disjunctive cityscape provides a perfect setting for multiculturalism in a postmodern context. This article takes readers on a guided tour Of a unique shopping mall at the hub of Hong Kong urbamscape, Times Square, as an illustration of how we can read out of it an “urban secret located at the intersection” of sf arui the postmodern.
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