... and in the postcolonial specificities of the responses within the Indian public sphere. The second set consists of the popular film, Slumdog Millionaire (2008), and the fictional book on which the film was based, Q & A (2005), by Vikas Swarup. Both the film and the book were routed...

...The advent of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Millionaire) marked out a new stage in the history of both the quiz-show genre and the international format trade. In blending audience participation, a gladiatorial atmosphere, and intense psychological pressure to choose between...

...Chapter 4 explores the role of popular fiction from Southern nations like India in reaffirming the neoliberal script for a global audience. It closely examines Indian writer Vikas Swarup’s 2005 novel, Q&A together with its Oscar-winning adaptation, Slumdog Millionaire...

...This chapter focuses on the visual life of the English language in India. It looks at two films—Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and Zoya Akhtar's commercially successful Gully Boy (2019)—which stage English as a thing to be seen rather than...

... (‘poverty porn’) that Slumdog Millionaire (Boyle 2008) has received to then argue that the film is best described as a palimpsestic imitation of Bombay Cinema. The film’s references to genres (gangster films, melodramas), plot structures (the forking life paths of two rival brothers...

...This chapter analyses the fashion show sequence in How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco, 1953). In this spectacle of sensory plenitude, which features a pair of translucent platform heels, gives objective form to the film’s overarching games of revelation. The shoes worn...

... films in terms of both style and tone, including most pertinently Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008). A cult film abroad, Satya was an unexpected commercial success at the box office. The chapter approaches Satya from a range of perspectives...

... Lautrec Henri de Toulouse sexuality changes in Symons Arthur Sherard Robert H Smithers Leonard socialism animals ‘The Model Millionaire’ short stories poverty ‘The Happy Prince’ fairy tales ‘The Portrait of Mr W H ’ Stokes John ‘The Young King’ beasts Gissing George Shaw George Bernard...

...0 27 03 1997 Soon after the Presidential Nominating Conventions, Allen Rucker of TVTV and Alvin Duskin, a millionaire clothing manufacturer turned political and media activist, began work on a tape about the people behind television commercials. The idea was in keeping with TVTV’s interest...

... such as The Price is Right, and the 1950s American ‘Big Money’ quiz shows. Drawing on Fiske’s (1987) work, the chapter goes on to consider how the quiz show grounds class differences in “natural” differences, with a particular focus on the class politics of Who Wants to be a Millionaire...

... War Devdas Barua P C Khan Aamir Khan Shah Rukh Lagaan parallel cinema Pather Panchali Ray Satyajit Roy Bimal Disney Ghajini 100 Crore Club Slumdog Millionaire Sony Pictures angry young man Bachchan Amitabh Deewar masculinity Congress Party Gandhi Attenborough film Hindu nationalism...

... such as Quiz Show, Melvin and Howard,Slumdog Millionaire, and Chuck Barris’s “unauthorized autobiography” Confessions of a Dangerous Mind suggest that a rigged game presents an existential threat to the self. Amidst the pressure to conform...

... gentry threshold could be as low as a four or five hundred acre estate yielding an income of around £500 a year. Investigation of every non-landed millionaire and half-millionaire businessman who died before 1914 establishes that 60 per cent of them had acquired landed estates, a further 20 per cent had...

...-inspired-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. It then discusses the origins and travels of Bollywood cinema and how the rubric of national cinema, under which Indian cinema has been examined, is problematized by the transnationalized production, distribution, and consumption of South...

... of the unidirectional flow of globalization and cites Slumdog Millionaire to make a strong case for the intensification of its reverse or ‘contra’ flow. The difference between Hollywood and Bollywood is not cosmetic but structural, and even civilizational, which is expressed as an aesthetic alterity...

...This chapter discusses stereotypical portrayal of squatter colonies and slums, examining particularly the appearance of slums in the novel, The White Tiger, alongside the more commercially successful film, Slumdog Millionaire. Both the novel and film stake...

.... The chapter also analyzes how imported formats, particularly Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and The Weakest Link, refashion the relationship between government and entrepreneurship, and between ethical values and expediency. The Weakest Link The Wise Rule ECM format...

...Hindi cinema's aesthetic code often makes use of the song sequence to function as an engine of couple-formation. In Danny Boyle's film Slumdog Millionaire, however, this aesthetic code was revised in the sense that it is the kiss, rather than the song and dance, that performed...

... media demagogue who preyed on naive fellow traveling sympathizers to reap a personal fortune—a “Red Millionaire.” Barbusse Henri Brecht Bertolt Dos Passos John Einstein Albert Gestapo surveillance of Münzenberg Goebbels Joseph Hitler Adolf Hugenberg Alfred Münzenberg Willi and Allied...

...This concluding chapter discusses Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire as both an adaptation of Oliver Twistand—along with Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of The English Patient (1996)—the most famous example of a postcolonial novel...