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Cultural narratives and the succession scenario: Slumdog Millionaire and other popular films and fictions
Authors:Paul Robert A
Affiliation:The Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Callaway Center S-412, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. rpaul@emory.edu
Abstract:An approach to the analysis of cultural narratives is proposed drawing inspiration from Lévi-Strauss's analysis of myths as fantasied resolutions of conflicts and contradictions in culture and of typical dilemmas of human life. An example of such an analysis revolves around contradictions in the Western cultural construction of the succession of generations. The logic of the structural analysis of cultural representations is explicated, the schema of the succession scenario is laid out, and the conflicts that generate it are identified. The movie Slumdog Millionaire is examined in some detail as an illustration of the succession scenario at work, and a comparative analysis shows how the same underlying schema accounts for otherwise obscure aspects of comparable contemporary popular narratives including Harry Potter, The Lion King and Star Wars.
Keywords:applied analysis  film  interpretation
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