REPRESENTATION IN TV DRAMA: THE INDIAN DOCTOR

This week your EXAM PREPARATION PREP is to write up the answers to the following questions, which are starting points for your comments.
The opening episode of The Indian Doctor (BBC1 2012) here
We analyse how the representation of ethnicity is constructed through mise-en-scene, camerawork, editing and sound.

1. How does the soundtrack function? What does the title wording suggest about representation?

2. Whose viewpoint is the audience made to share, and how?

3. How is Indian ethnicity constructed? How is the Welsh community represented?

4. How are Prem and Kamini constructed as outsiders?

5. What does the editing (shot reverse shot; framing, reaction shot) contribute to the representation?

6. Mise-en-scene: how are Prem and Kamini positioned as outsiders through their clothes?

7: Editing: what do the clips from the contemporary film 'The Millionairess' contribute

to the representation of Asians?

8. What does the representation of an Asian doctor by Peter Sellers contribute in terms of racist humour?

9. Comment on the arrival of Prem and Kamini in the village hall during the screening. How is the 2012 audience meant to understand this scene?

10. How is the Welsh community represented?