Homelessness and Self-Disclosure
Homelessness and Self-Disclosure
Evans Chan’s “Minor” Cinema
This chapter examines Evans Chan’s cerebral and personal film The Map of Sex and Love with reference to the concepts raised by Georg Lukacs in his seminal The Theory of the Novel. It is a film marked by homelessness: the impending changes in Hong Kong’s physical landscape give viewers a sense of precariousness of life. The film’s manifold intertextual references embrace philosophy, Cantonese and Western operas, classical Chinese cinema, and English language poetry. As with the other works of Evans Chan, there is a strong conviction that narrative form should treat the absurd as a necessary condition of meaning.
Keywords: Evans Chan, Georg Lukacs, Absurdity, Intertextuality, Homelessness, history
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