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  • 3 - Women’s Rights and Censorship:

  • Marco Wan, The University of Hong Kong
  • Book:
    Film and Constitutional Controversy
    Published online:
    05 February 2021
    Print publication:
    04 February 2021, pp 61-82

  • Summary

    The implementation of the Bill of Rights ordinance galvanized Hong Kong’s women’s rights movement in the early 1990s, even though the colonial government did not necessarily have gender equality in mind when it introduced the legislation. I explore the curious coexistence of the consolidation of women’s rights on the one hand, and the rising popularity of misogynistic and degrading depictions of women in film on the other, with a particular focus on Andrew Lau’s Raped by an Angel (1993; 香港奇案之強姦). I also discuss the influence of the film censorship regime on representations of sexual violence in Hong Kong cinema in this period, especially within what became known as age-restricted “Category III” films.