I may not make it to the lesson today but you MUST stay in the classroom throughout period 2 and do the following as it is quite possible I'll arrive before breaktime...
Go to Youtube and watch the Slumdog Millionaire trailer and Danny Boyle's account of filming in India. Read some of the comments on the latter.
Then go to The Guardian and read the article about 'Poverty Porn' and then the one about how British Asians have responded to the film. Post up all these links on your Med 5 blogs and then write your own response to the film, paying particular attention to the representation issues.
How does it represent India/Indians? How does this compare to our notion of The Other or the Oriental stereotype? Try to link your answer to the theorists/ideas we were looking at last week.
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