Book contents
- Film and Constitutional Controversy
- Law in Context
- Film and Constitutional Controversy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Love in a Time of Transition:
- 2 Laughing at the Law:
- 3 Women’s Rights and Censorship:
- 4 The Common Law after 1997:
- 5 A Matter of National Security:
- 6 Choosing the Leader:
- 7 Scenes from a Traumatic Event:
- Coda:
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
7 - Scenes from a Traumatic Event:
Documenting Occupy Central (with Observations on Cinema and the Anti-extradition Bill Protests)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2021
- Film and Constitutional Controversy
- Law in Context
- Film and Constitutional Controversy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Love in a Time of Transition:
- 2 Laughing at the Law:
- 3 Women’s Rights and Censorship:
- 4 The Common Law after 1997:
- 5 A Matter of National Security:
- 6 Choosing the Leader:
- 7 Scenes from a Traumatic Event:
- Coda:
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 7 draws on the work of trauma theorists such as Cathy Caruth to argue that Occupy Central can be understood as a form of cultural trauma in Hong Kong. Focusing on independent documentaries about the movement, including Chan Tze Woon’s Yellowing (2016; 亂世備忘); Evan Chan’s Raise the Umbrellas (2016; 撐傘), Nora Lam’s Road Not Taken (2016; 未竟之路), and James Leong’s Umbrella Diaries: The First Umbrellas (2018; 傘上:遍地開花), I examine how different filmmakers try to capture in their work an event with which the city is still, to a great extent, coming to terms. I will also show the continuities between Occupy and the anti-extradition bill protests, and discuss the role of cinema in the more recent episodes of unrest.
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- Film and Constitutional ControversyVisualizing Hong Kong Identity in the Age of 'One Country, Two Systems', pp. 135 - 154Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021