Critical Analysis of Slumdog MillionaireRavi Kumar
Slumdog Millionaire— the sick side of Mumbai
Slumdog Millionarie is a sensational, unsettling movie directed by Danny Boyle that shows how some Indians live an impoverished life and are tangentially connected to the prodigals of the city, the city which strives for financial perfection. Alice Miles of Times Online, London termed this movie as “poverty porn”. I consider the movie as a reflection of Mumbai’s reality.
We all can agree that poverty, absence of rule of law, and discrimination can be present in culture, but should be eliminated. Simply because exposing the dark side of society might indicate hierarchy does not mean we should stop exposing these dark sides of the society. I believe that we should be thankful to Danny Boyle, who has a track record of not being canonical director, for exposing the recondite, exigent issues of the contemporary world via sugar coded medium— Slumdog Millionaire. Lastly, I am soberly optimistic that I exculpate Danny Boyle from making“poverty porn” as Alice Miles termed.
Slides from seminar devoted to improve proficiency of web designers, developers, QAs in the area of building seo-frienldy websites. The seminar took place at Zfort Group's office in Kharkov, Ukraine.
Critical Analysis of Slumdog MillionaireRavi Kumar
Slumdog Millionaire— the sick side of Mumbai
Slumdog Millionarie is a sensational, unsettling movie directed by Danny Boyle that shows how some Indians live an impoverished life and are tangentially connected to the prodigals of the city, the city which strives for financial perfection. Alice Miles of Times Online, London termed this movie as “poverty porn”. I consider the movie as a reflection of Mumbai’s reality.
We all can agree that poverty, absence of rule of law, and discrimination can be present in culture, but should be eliminated. Simply because exposing the dark side of society might indicate hierarchy does not mean we should stop exposing these dark sides of the society. I believe that we should be thankful to Danny Boyle, who has a track record of not being canonical director, for exposing the recondite, exigent issues of the contemporary world via sugar coded medium— Slumdog Millionaire. Lastly, I am soberly optimistic that I exculpate Danny Boyle from making“poverty porn” as Alice Miles termed.
Slides from seminar devoted to improve proficiency of web designers, developers, QAs in the area of building seo-frienldy websites. The seminar took place at Zfort Group's office in Kharkov, Ukraine.
Gallego Aguilar, Andrés Felipe. (2011). Capítulo 1. Introducción a las narrativas transmediáticas. En Diseño de narrativas transmediáticas. Manizales: Facultad de Artes y Humanidades, Universidad de Caldas.
Tubau, Daniel. (2011). Crisis en el mundo del guión. En El guión del siglo XXI. El futuro de la narrativa en el mundo digital. Barcelona: Alba, pp. 13-32.
Lovato, Anahí. (2015). Del periodismo multimedia al periodismo transmedia. En Fernando Irigaray y Anahí Lovato. (Eds.). Producciones transmedia de no ficción Análisis, experiencias y tecnologías. Rosario: UNR Editora, pp. 33-52.
Teaching Old Brands New Tricks with Transmedia Storytelling (1/2) Henri Weijo
Henri Weijo (PhD candidate at Aalto University School of Economics, Department of Marketing) explores transmedia storytelling, showing how many of its practices have already become commonplace in today’s marketing. However, at the end of the presentation I outline ideas on where brands should be going next to really leverage transmedia. Part 1 / 2.
2. What is postmodernism and
why it is relevant to our
project?
• The postmodern era is characterised by
uncertainty in society and chaos.
• A post modern society involves a media
saturated consumer culture, where
individuals are free to ‘pick and mix’ identities
and lifestyles, chosen from a limitless range
on constantly changing consumer goods
which are available across the world
3. The change and distiction
between high culture and
popular culture..
• Postmodernists ague that mass markets and
consumption patterns are makng the
didtiction between high and popular culture
meaningless.
• There has been a huge expansion of media
based creative an cultural industries
• E.g. advertising, television, Film and web
publishing
• This now means that there is a huge range of
media and cultural media products available
to all…
4. • 50 years ago it would have been
impossible for us to get a photograph of
Tokyo city, however because of the
postmodern society we live in today, I
was able to. (add pic of tokyo)
5. Baudrillard
• Baudrillard sees life in the postmodern era as
being so dominated by media imagery that it
has become what he calls ‘media saturated’
• The media presents multiple realities and he
calls this ‘simulacra’
• Simulactra are images or reproductions and
copies which apear to reflect thing sin the real
world but have no base in reality
• This ‘hyper reality’ is a view of the world
which Is actually created and defined by the
media. Our music video had no basest in
reality at all. New media technologies have
allowed us to inhabit multiple worlds, which
has significantly aided our creativity.
6. Stylistically, media
intertextuality (postmoderninsm
and how it relates to the arts)
• One of the pleasures that audiences
experience in the consumption of media texts
and the joy of recognition
• One form of this pleasure comes in
recognizing the reference in one media text to
another
• Intertextuality is the way in which text refers
to other media text which the audience will
recognize.
7. Mimicry
• Mimicry- this interdependent relationship
between texts can take a number of different
forms, it often transcends both genres and
media forms. This means that a text created
in one media can be used in another medium.
We used a 1950s b movie( Godzilla) as
inspiration for our media video. We mimicked
another media text. We also mimicked the
comic book style, which created a new media
form and we interested the audience by
referencing things intertextually. This is the
reason we used Tokyo.