On the Edge of Spaces
Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell , and Hong Kong’s Cityscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11061588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wong Kin Yuen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | Part 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Fiction Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7729 • E-ISSN: 2327-6207 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/sfs.27.1.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4409392133 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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
Archaeology · Art · Blade (archaeology) · Cityscape · Computer vision · Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution · Geography · Geometry · Shell (structure) · Visual arts · Computer Science · Engineering · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Mathematics · Mechanical Engineering
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |