Summary statement of what I would like to explore for my final project:
The research topic i would like to choose is “Globalization or hybridization of genre”. The reason why i choose this topic as my research topic because i think Hong Kong is the place between Western and Oriental culture. There will be so much things can compare with the other and i will focus on films and sexual culture. That’s why my research question is “ How do Hong Kong Teenager consume Western and Oriental movie with sexual element.”
how this develops themes and concepts raised in lectures:
Hong Kong, as a international city, there are many movies come and show on cinema everyday. Those movie may be come form China, Japan, US or even Korea. etc. Each movie were representing their home country’s culture. But when those were showing in Hong Kong, many things will changed by subtitle. Or some of those local movie had add some western movie element, for example “Form Vegas to Macao” had add a robot character like Iron man. Was that Movie still can count on local movie or a hybridity movie?
Through this research, i hope i could find out why the western movie was more popular than local and china (Oriental) movie when those movie using the same sexual element. for example, Ted 1/2 and From Vegas to Macao. Both of them were using some sexual and violent element, but why those teenager in Hong Kong thought “Ted 1/2” was much better than “Form Vegas to Macao”. Those movie were representing their own culture for different country. But Why the Western Movie always more popular than the local movie.
Methods to be used:
In this part, I prefer to use qualitative and quantitive methodology both for supporting my research. Using Quantitive methodology because i need to know which genre of movie people would like to watch. And also quantitive methodology can separate the participants ages and help me to find out which how many people like to western movie and how many like the local or Oriental movie. That’s why i will create a questionnaire for those question to connect the data and analysis them. Also i will use snowball sampling as my sampling method because this method and help me to find more teenagers who come from different places and had different educational background. All those people will become one of my advantage of my research result and make my research become more reliability.
After i connect all those questionnaire, i will invite those people who had finish the questionnaire to have a interview to ask them more specific detail, like his/ her feeling about movie had add some sexual element, or how they feel a local movie had add some western sexual element. after the interview, i will connect all those data form the interviewees and analysis how do Hong Kong Teenager consume Western and Oriental movie with sexual element.
student no. :10643061
student name: Yuen Hoi Wang Patrick
Hi Patrick, Your research question can be more straightforward - "Why do Hong Kong audiences like seeing Hollywood movies?" This will also touch upon why they don't like seeing local ones. Don't use the term "Oriental" in your research topic. Interviews would be fine enough. To facilitate discussion, a short structured questionnaire can be used. You can start doing the project.
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