Contemporary Filmic Texts – Based On Nosedive & Foreign Correspondent

Resource Description

Full script for multimodal presentation answering the question \”How do contemporary filmic texts use storytelling to challenge cultural assumptions?\” based on films ‘Nosedive’ (Black mirror episode) director Joe Wright, and ‘Exposing China’s Digital Dystopian Dictatorship’ (Foreign Correspondent episode) producers Alex Barry and Cecily Huang.

How do contemporary filmic texts use storytelling to challenge cultural assumptions?

Today’s society is majorly dependant on technology and the authenticity which lies around it. Destroying trust and faithfulness in others as contemporary possibilities enable people to hide from the truth. As you, students of film and radio, would probably already know, the concept and value of storytelling is a universal experience and a venerable form of communication, in which to be able to share the behaviour and culture of a society. Using contemporary film techniques, all cultures have been able to enhance the idea of storytelling to illustrate a society’s values and beliefs to a larger audience, assisting in the challenging of the cultural assumptions within that society. Social media has already challenged today’s cultural expectations and understandings through the ideas of conflict, authenticity, and a culture of “fakeness”. ‘Nosedive’ (Black mirror episode) director Joe Wright, and ‘Exposing China’s Digital Dystopian Dictatorship’ (Foreign Correspondent episode) producers Alex Barry and Cecily Huang, have used such film techniques and storytelling to investigate and challenge the cultural assumptions within today’s society.