The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar‐Wai's Cinematic Hong Kong

Bridge, Gary (Herausgeber:in) / Watson, Sophie (Herausgeber:in) / Lindner, Christoph (Autor:in)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 327-336

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

25.02.2011

10 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch28

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

critical spatial studies ‐ globalization studies and film studies , Soja, developing the term Postmetropolis ‐ future‐oriented urbanism, of late‐capitalist age of globalization , postmetropolis and mental life ‐ Wong Kar‐Wai's cinematic Hong Kong , Fallen Angels, not just a dystopian urban fantasy ‐ insightful, imaginative, commentary on violence in contemporary urban condition , “The metropolis and mental life”, ‐ before Simmel's thinking, in light of contemporary urbanism , Hong Kong Cool, double meaning of “cool” ‐ hit‐man's emotional numbness and scene's stylized treatment of violence , Metropolis to Postmetropolis, for Simmel ‐ modern city, relentless in its assault on senses and blasé attitude , visual culture and the urban environment , Fallen Angels, kind of realistic representation ‐ of contemporary urban life , global Hong Kong, film's preoccupation ‐ disposability of human life, inescapability of globalized consumer culture