Related texts (global)? (1 Viewer)

[yummy-cookies]

Sorry to be posting again. but does anyone know any suitable movies for navigating the global?

(Oh, and don't say Chocolat, since I'm doing the book)

Thank you!

 

[Fortian09]

u might wanna try 'Lost in Translaton '

 

[yummy-cookies]

u might wanna try 'Lost in Translaton '

I meant related texts

 

[Fortian09]

oh whoops my bad hmm

 

[rawdevil1992]

im thinking of doing "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo

i read from this site that its about a family going through trobles after their company got sold to a multinational firm or soemthing-- so we can basically say that globalization diminishes and even exploits local communities.

i'd read more reviews about it-- im going to do that now.

any other ideas/books that can be a related text??

VERY DESPERATE HERE

 

[-tal-]

Warning: The following list is guaranteed to suck. Proceed with caution. The author takes no responsiblity for ill conceived analysis value. (The author does not fully understand the module, and does not undertake the English Extension course)

The Pianist - Roman Polanski
The Matrix - Wachowski brothers
Tokyo Story/Tokyo Monogatari - Yasujiro Ozu (1953)
In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar Wai
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
The Manchurian Candidate - John Frankenheimer
The Quiet American - Phillip Noyce
The Virgin Suicides - Sofia Coppola
Before Sunrise - Richard Linklater
Before Sunset - Richard Linklater
Factory Girl - George Hickenlooper
The Color Purple - Steven Spielberg
The Phantom of the Opera - Rupert Julian (1925)
All About Eve - Joseph Mankiewicz
ET - Steven Spielberg
Sweeney Todd - Tim Burton
King Kong - Peter Jackson
The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan
Roman Holiday - William Wyler
The Conversation - Francis Coppola


I'll add some more if I have time. I spent 2h compiling this list. Spare me

&& DON'T BLAME IT ON MY ASS IF YOU WATCH ANY OF THESE MOVIES AND DECIDE THEY DON'T WORK. READ THE SYNOPSIS.

 

[MJLavicka]

Gosh texts: the china syndrome, north country, little miss sunshine (for the obsession with beauty because of western culture/ hollywood or if you just like watching it), various vietnam war ones are good, any given sunday, i'm doing a picture book called where is bin laden?
Have fun choosing....

 

[legendfunk]

err, Our teacher recommended all of these Indian writers, I just can't remember their names I think some of them were The God of Small Things and Brick Lane from what I recall.

 

[no entiendo]

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is a postcolonial text - you can look at what she says about anglophilia and the effect of rigid social structures on the lives of individuals ("choice and circumstance")

However this might be more aligned with retreat from the global - I think all of our set texts except for lost in translation are really about retreating. They should probably set a wider range of texts if they want to change the concept....