ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE RELATION BETWEEN CINEMA AND IDEOLO-GY
SİNEMA VE İDEOLOJİ İLİŞKİSİ BAĞLAMINDA SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE FİLMİNİN ANALİZİ

Author : Serkan ÖZTÜRK
Number of pages : 216-232

Abstract

Even though the products of cinema in its early days which gets in human life with find out cinematograph in 1895 and the products of today are quite different, the first examples of the cinema are still affecting people. The Lumiere Brothers shot “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat” which is a first example of cinema. This film made people in the cinema hall very excited. People who thought that the train would crush them, emptied the hall in fear. This was a first example that camera and cinema could be used as a frightening element. Cinema is mainly dealt within the context of artistic activities, but it has also been noticed from the earliest examples that the cinema is an important means of propaganda with the potential to influence masses. Moreover, this propaganda activity is effective not only in the context of thinking and acting in the desired direction but also in the fact that the false consciousness placed in mass becomes permanent. In this study, the ideological effects of the cinema are being investigated and the film "Slumdog Millionaire", which was shot by English director Danny Boyle in 2008, was selected as sample. Critical discourse analysis has been applied as a method to reveal the ideological influences of Slumdog Millionaire by examining the film; story, acting, space design and characters. The film captures the events in India and is perceived as an Indian film because of the players and the spaces used. However, it has been found that Film is exposed to Hollywood influences at a high level due to the ideology it has.

Keywords

Cinema, Ideology, Art, Slumdog Millionaire, Critical Discourse.

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