Mobility, Modernity and the Slum: The Real and Virtual Journeys of 'Slumdog Millionaire'

ISBN-13: 9781138344747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 254 str.

Rodanthi Tzanelli

Opis

This book examines Slumdog Millionaire as an articulation of multiple mobilities of globalization, tourism, cinematic representation, transnational artistic collaboration and activism.

Spis treści

Part I: Slumdog Metaphors of Globalisation  1. Globalisation as Serendipitous Adaptation  2. The Nexus of Theory and Methodology  3. A Slumdog Industrial Community  Part II: Reading Slumdog Millionaire  4. Staging Slumdog: From Realist Fiction to ‘Ethical’ Acting  5. The Cinematic Text Scene-by-Scene  6. The Frail Dialogics of Pop Participation  Part III: A Plural Slumdog Kósmos  7. Tourist Modernities: SM’s Multiple Sites as Fields  8. The Virtual Journeys of Slumdog Millionaire  9. Slumdog Economies of Modernity  10. Conclusion

O autorze

Rodanthi Tzanelli is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK.