title: GHOST FROM THE FUTURE: HONG KONG TEMPORALITIES IN THE FILM ROUGE
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metadata.value: Liu, Yuqing
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-15T11:23:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-15T11:23:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288062049.22
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35710
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This paper explores how the film Rouge (1987) adapts and transforms traditional
  ghost narratives and how the cinematic anxiety of time is associated with the
  countdown temporality of Hong Kong in the 1980s. I argue that Rouge transforms two
  narrative structures of traditional Chinese literature — Caizi-jiaren (scholar-beauty) and
  the “historical ghost tale” — to foreground the particular temporality of Hong Kong.
  Firstly, the returning of the female ghost and her failure in pursuit of love intensifies
  the conflict between the modern linear time and the cosmological ghostly time and poignantly
  manifests the impossibility of a fifty-year unchanged commitment. Secondly,
  unlike traditional “historical ghost tales” in which ghosts were called back by traumas of
  the collapse of old dynasties, the revenant of the heroin in this film returns to the living
  world for the prearranged trauma of the future, due to the particular temporality of
  countdown Hong Kong has confronted since 1982. The countdown forced Hong Kong
  to enter a circular time and to experience the prearranged calamity in the future. Thus,
  I contend that this film rehearses a demise of Hong Kong, which exacerbates, rather
  than alleviates, the anxiety and pain associated with the traumatic experience.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Rouge
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Temporality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Countdown
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hong Kong
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ghost
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: GHOST FROM THE FUTURE: HONG KONG TEMPORALITIES IN THE FILM ROUGE
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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