Abstract
Nowadays, as the number of films accumulates, they have become an important entertainment in people’s life. Basically, some values and concepts reflected in films will influence the individuals. It is an undeniable truth that now many western films are having an increasingly huge impact on the eastern audience. However, we can easily find some that depict the Orient, to some extent, distort the real eastern countries and, meanwhile, they intentionally beatify the Occident.
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2017 British film directed by Danny Boyle. It is an adaptation of the novel Q&A by an Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. As a great hit, the film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2017 and won eight, becoming the biggest winner and the hottest topic in the movie field in 2017. Apart from the excellent performance of the actors and the exciting plot, the reason why there is so much focus on it is also due to some deep connotations revealing in the film, the discourse of the relationship between the West and the East.
Based on these facts, this thesis chooses the film Slumdog Millionaire as object. It intends to analyze the film and explore the reasons for its success from the perspective of post-colonialism. The significance of this thesis is to present some ideas about how to locate our own culture in the new age.
This thesis can be simply divided into five parts. The first part is about why I write this thesis and its significance. The second part is literature review of post-colonial theories and films with post-colonialism. The third part is the detailed analysis of the film Slumdog Millionaire with the application of Edward Said’s theory on orientalism and Homi Bhabha’s cultural hybridization. The fourth part is the exploration of reasons for its success from the post-colonial perspective. The last part is the conclusion and some suggestions.
Key words: post-colonialism, orientalism, cultural hybridization, films
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