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Book Synopsis Slumdog Millionaire by : Vikas Swarup
Download or read book Slumdog Millionaire written by Vikas Swarup and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.
Book Synopsis Slumdog Millionaire by : Paul Shipton
Download or read book Slumdog Millionaire written by Paul Shipton and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the story of a young boy from the streets of Mumbai who wins the popular quiz show 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'. This book also contains a fact file section which provides information on making the story into a film, the country of India and the lives of street children.
Book Synopsis The “Slumdog” Phenomenon by : Ajay Gehlawat
Download or read book The “Slumdog” Phenomenon written by Ajay Gehlawat and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon” addresses multiple issues related to “Slumdog Millionaire” and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controversial film. Each of the book’s four sections considers a particular aspect of the film: its relation to the nation, to the slum, to Bollywood and its reception. The volume provides a critical overview of the key issues and debates stemming from the film, and allows readers to reexamine them in light of the anthology’s multiple perspectives.
Book Synopsis The Accidental Apprentice by : Vikas Swarup
Download or read book The Accidental Apprentice written by Vikas Swarup and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As heard on BBC Woman's Hour From the author of the book behind the blockbuster movie Slumdog Millionaire, a brilliant novel about life changing in an instant. In life you never get what you deserve: you get what you negotiate… What would you do if, out of the blue, a billionaire industrialist decided to make you the CEO of his company? No prior business experience necessary. There is only one catch: you need to pass seven tests from the 'textbook of life'. This is the offer made to Sapna Sinha, an ordinary salesgirl in an electronics boutique in downtown Delhi, by Vinay Mohan Acharya, one of India's richest men. Thus begins the most challenging journey of Sapna's life, one that will test her character, her courage and her capabilities. Along the way she encounters a host of memorable personalities, from a vain Bollywood superstar to a kleptomaniac Gandhian. At stake is a business empire worth ten billion dollars, and the future she has always dreamt of. But are the seven tests for real or is Acharya playing a deeper game, one driven by a perverse fantasy? From the acclaimed author of Slumdog Millionaire, one of the biggest films of the decade, comes this compelling, suspenseful tale of the power of dreams, the lure of money and the universal need to know who we are. Praise forThe Accidental Apprentice: 'It's easy to forget that before it was retitled for Hollywood, Slumdog Millionairewas a novel called Q&A,which makes its author, Vikas Swarup, probably the most successful Indian author you've never heard of…. Gripping stuff… Perhaps The Accidental Apprenticeis awaiting its Danny Boyle'The Times Praise for Q&A/Slumdog Millionaire 'A colourful portrait of Indian society is painted with remarkable lightness and wit' Sunday Telegraph 'Absorbing and richly entertaining reading' The Times
Book Synopsis Slumdog Millionaire by : Danny Boyle
Download or read book Slumdog Millionaire written by Danny Boyle and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mobility, Modernity and the Slum by : Rodanthi Tzanelli
Download or read book Mobility, Modernity and the Slum written by Rodanthi Tzanelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only virtuous humans are supposed to move in time to meet their happy destiny or karma. The tale of Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire is such a case of serendipitous mobility towards riches and love – a ‘journey’ in which good heroes and urban communities respecting solidarity are successfully modernised. Unsurprisingly, the film became tangled in many controversies around India’s destiny in the world: the film inserted Mumbai into various financial, political and artistic scenes, increased tourism in its filmed slums, and brought about charity projects in which celebrities and tourist businesses were involved. Slumdog Millionaire served as a global example of a ‘developing country’s’ uneven but unique modernisation. This book examines such mobilities of ideas, art, tourism and activism together. In doing so, it reveals the significance of Mumbai as a post-colonial city in discussions of modernity – a form of mobile adaptation to new world realities. Tzanelli examines the various agents involved in controversies through multiple virtual and real journeys to India’s colonial history and present social complexity, with a view to actualise a post-colonial future, a ‘destiny’ as the country’s serendipitous destination. Addressed to interdisciplinary audiences, the book will be a useful text for students and scholars of globalisation, mobility, tourism, media and social movement theory.
Book Synopsis Bookpresentation: "Slumdog Millionaire" by Vikas Swarup and comparison with movie by : Sandra Bosnic
Download or read book Bookpresentation: "Slumdog Millionaire" by Vikas Swarup and comparison with movie written by Sandra Bosnic and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-University Paper from the year 2011 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 15 Punkte (Note 1), , language: English, abstract: Overview / Gliederung Book presentation: Slumdog millionaire Ø The author: Vikas Swarup Ø His inspiration for the story Ø About the book: Ø Main characters of the book Ø The plot Ø Important topics the book deals with Ø Slums in India Ø Caste system in India Ø Religions in India Ø Corruption in India Ø Most important differences between the book and the movie Ø Own opinion Ø Vocab
Download or read book Six Suspects written by Vikas Swarup and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for The Great Indian Murder, now a streaming series! There's a caste system--even in murder From the author of the international bestseller Slumdog Millionaire comes a richly-textured tale of murder, corruption, and opportunity. Seven years ago, Vivek "Vicky" Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered bartender Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi, simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai has been killed at the party he was throwing to celebrate his acquittal. The police recover six guests with guns in their possession: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi overnight; an American tourist infatuated with an Indian actress; a stone-age tribesman on a quest to recover a sacred stone; a Bollywood sex-symbol with a guilty secret; a mobile-phone thief who dreams big; and an ambitious politician prepared to stoop low. Swarup unravels the lives and motives of the six suspects, offering both a riveting page-turner and an insightful peek into the heart of contemporary India. Audaciously and astutely plotted, with a panoramic imaginative sweep, Six Suspects is the work of a master storyteller.
Download or read book Memory and Movies written by John Seamon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular films from Memento to Slumdog Millionaire can help us understand how memory works. In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, the childhood memories of a young game show contestant trigger his correct answers. In Memento, the amnesiac hero uses tattoos as memory aids. In Away from Her, an older woman suffering from dementia no longer remembers who her husband is. These are compelling films that tell affecting stories about the human condition. But what can these movies teach us about memory? In this book, John Seamon shows how examining the treatment of memory in popular movies can shed new light on how human memory works. After explaining that memory is actually a diverse collection of independent systems, Seamon uses examples from movies to offer an accessible, nontechnical description of what science knows about memory function and dysfunction. In a series of lively encounters with numerous popular films, he draws on Life of Pi and Avatar, for example, to explain working memory, used for short-term retention. He describes the process of long-term memory with examples from such films as Cast Away and Groundhog Day; The Return of Martin Guerre, among other movies, informs his account of how we recognize people; the effect of emotion on autobiographical memory is illustrated by The Kite Runner, Titanic, and other films; movies including Born on the Fourth of July and Rachel Getting Married illustrate the complex pain of traumatic memories. Seamon shows us that movies rarely get amnesia right, often using strategically timed blows to the protagonist's head as a way to turn memory off and then on again (as in Desperately Seeking Susan). Finally, he uses movies including On Golden Pond and Amour to describe the memory loss that often accompanies aging, while highlighting effective ways to maintain memory function.
Download or read book Danny Boyle written by Brent Dunham and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humble man from humble beginnings, Danny Boyle (b. 1956) became a popular cinema darling when Slumdog Millionaire won big at the 2009 Academy Awards. Prior to this achievement, this former theater and television director helped the British film industry pull itself out of a decades-long slump. With Trainspotting, he proved British films could be more than stuffy, period dramas; they could be vivacious and thrilling with dynamic characters and an infectious soundtrack. This collection of interviews traces Boyle’s relatively short fifteen-year film career, from his outstanding low-budget debut Shallow Grave, to his Hollywood studio films, his brief return to television, and his decade-in-the-making renaissance. Taken from a variety of sources including academic journals, mainstream newspapers, and independent bloggers, Danny Boyle: Interviews is one of the first books available on this emerging director. As an interviewee, Boyle displays an engaging honesty and openness. He talks about his films 28 Days Later, Millions, and others. His success proves that classical storytelling artists still resonate with audiences.
Book Synopsis Intercultural Language Activities with CD-ROM by : John Corbett
Download or read book Intercultural Language Activities with CD-ROM written by John Corbett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercultural Language Activities contains fourteen chapters covering topics including childhood, food, sport, icons, politics and body language. The book also helps learners mediate in situations of cultural misunderstanding and start web-based intercultural exchanges. It examines interview techniques, how people present themselves, and ways to interpret cultural symbols and characteristics, such as those found in postcards, advertisements and online newspapers. In engaging with these topics, learners become intercultural explorers and raise their level of communicative competence.
Book Synopsis Slumdog millionaire by : Vikas Swarup
Download or read book Slumdog millionaire written by Vikas Swarup and published by Bazarforlag AS. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den kritikerroste boken bak Danny Boyles film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, som vant 8 Oscarstatuetter. Den fattige, foreldreløse gutten uten skolegang Ram Mohammad Thomas vinner den indiske versjonen av «Vil du bli millionær?» Men produsenten av programmet er ikke villig til å betale premien. Derfor sørger han for å få ham arrestert og torturert for å innrømme juks. Men Ram Mohammad Thomas har ikke jukset. Mens han gjennomgår TV-opptakene, tar han oss med på en fantastisk reise gjennom et omskiftelig liv. Med Gutten som hadde svar på alt, også kjent som Slumdog millionaire, har den indiske diplomaten Vikas Swarup fått et stort publikum verden over.
Download or read book The Play Ethic written by Pat Kane and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Fizzes with intellectual curiosity. Kane writes engagingly and with a humility difficult to find among idea-entrepreneurs’ James Harkin, Independent We all think we know what play is. Play is what we do as children, what we do outside of work, what we do for no other reason than for pleasure. But this is only half of the truth. The Play Ethic explores the real meaning of play and shows how a more playful society would revolutionize and liberate our daily lives. Using wide and varied sources – from the Enlightenment to Eminem, Socrates to Chaos theory, Kierkegaard to Karaoke – The Play Ethic shows how play is fundamental to both society and to the individual, and how the work ethic that has dominated the last three centuries is ill-equipped to deal with the modern world. With verve, wit and intelligence, Pat Kane takes us on a tour of the playful world arguing that without it business, the arts, politics, education, even our family and spiritual lives are fundamentally impoverished. The Play Ethic seeks to change the way you look at your daily life, how you interact with others, how you view the world. It is a guidebook to new, exciting – and unsettling – times. Shocking, controversial, yet magnificently argued, The Play Ethic is a book no one who works, or has ever worked, can afford to be without. ‘Kane's Manifesto for a Different Way of Living is a brave attempt to inject a little playfulness . . . into the dull grind of the working stiff’ Iain Finlayson, The Times
Book Synopsis Mediated Identities by : Divya Carolyn McMillin
Download or read book Mediated Identities written by Divya Carolyn McMillin and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediated Identities is an empirical examination of how youth identity is negotiated in urban and rural spaces where cultural, economic, and political forces compete for the allegiance of the young consumer and worker. Rich with fieldwork on teens and television in India, Germany, South Africa, and the United States, the book provides a new direction for the critical discussion of youth agency. It questions young people as autonomous consumers and examines the interpellatory forces of media and market. The application of postcolonial theory produces an incisive analysis of television and other media consumption as part of a process that bolsters the neocolonial imperatives of globalization. Simultaneously, the book focuses on the opportunism on both sides of the equation, on youth particularly in developing economies and the industries that need their cheap labor. In such opportunistic contexts, Mediated Identities addresses ethical dilemmas and transformative possibilities.
Download or read book Slumgirl Dreaming written by Rubina Ali and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Rubina Ali. I don't know when my birthday is, and nor does my father, but I do know that I am nine years old. Young Rubina is a one-in-a-million star. Plucked from among five hundred slumkids who auditioned for Danny Boyle's multi-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, she saw her fairy-tale dream of stardom come true. Now that she has stepped into the limelight, what will life hold for a young girl from the Mumbai slums? Rubina tells her own incredible story, bringing to life a world of wastelands and rat-infested shanty dwellings, where she played marbles with her friends beside the sewers of Garib Nagar. She introduces her beloved father, a hardworking rickshaw puller, and her siblings. And then Rubina tells of the kindness of Danny Boyle and of the time she spent on the film sets--including the hilarious incident when her costar came to be covered in chocolate from head to toe. After her brief encounter with red-carpet glamour, how will Rubina come to terms with the conditions in which she, her family, and her friends continue to live since Hollywood came knocking? This is her compelling story.
Book Synopsis Focus On: 100 Most Popular Nonlinear Narrative Films by : Wikipedia contributors
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular Nonlinear Narrative Films written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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