The link to my first Digital Story Map can be found here: https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/f611e25bd9d83333b8fa8d5a13ecb837/disillusionment-in-the-city/draft.html

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Shree 420 is a great examination of what it means to be an honest man and what it means to be a cheat, or in the film’s diction, a “420.” The difference between honesty and dishonesty, along with the conflict between the rich and the poor, culminate in what is ostensibly a battle between good

Shree 420 was released in 1955, eight years after India’s independence. To me, it was interesting to see how certain themes of the film seem to reflect the country’s newly gained independence.  One of the most striking examples was the first musical break by Raj Kumar and Seth Sonachand Dharmanand’s speech in front of the

TW: Suicide When comparing An Outpost for Progress and La Noire De, the largest observation I made was the stark difference in portraying confrontations between the colonizer and colonized.  Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was peering from the outside, drawing on his own life experiences within the text. His work, while trying to serve a larger

La Noire De places much of its meaning in its subtext. On the surface, Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl is simply a movie about one Senegalese woman’s plight as she endures the abuse of her employer and laments the ideal life she had envisioned for herself in France. But looking deeper, it is fair to say

Reading Calvino’s Invisible Cities with the Global Cities documentary fresh on my mind, it is particularly interesting how the two pieces of media differently represented and described these urban centers.  The modern city, as represented by Global Cities, is an almost monotonous affair. All the urban centers represented in the documentary are nearly identical. Skyscrapers,

“The building with the globes is now Fedora’s museum: every inhabitant visits it, chooses the city that corresponds to his desires, contemplates it, imagining his reflection in the medusa pond that would have collected the waters of the canal (if it had not been dried up), the view from the high canopied box along the

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