Whose Fatal ways: Mapping the boundary and consuming the other in border crossing films

Abstract

Situated within the context of Hong Kong's postcoloniality, this essay will tackle the issues of cultural anxiety, identity formation, and internal Orientalism in border crossing films. Two major arguments will be elaborated. First, in addressing the issue of border crossing, Hong Kong cinema participates in the public's desire and anxiety to define what Hong Kong is. Second, in the process of constructing a Hong Kong identity, Hong Kong cinema often draws the imagined boundary between national self and national other along the line of Hong Kong/male and mainland China/ female.