Poverty porn

Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India, was featured in the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire.

Poverty porn, also known as development porn or famine porn, has been defined as "any type of media, be it written, photographed or filmed, which exploits the poor’s condition in order to generate the necessary sympathy for selling newspapers or increasing charitable donations or support for a given cause".[1][2]

It is a term also used to explain when media is created not in order to generate sympathy, but to cause anger or outrage.[3][4]

Works associated with poverty porn

See also

References

  1. ↑ Matt Collin (July 1, 2009). "What is ‘poverty porn’ and why does it matter for development?". Aid Thoughts. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
  2. ↑ Flinders, Matthew (January 8, 2014). "Down and out in Bloemfontein". Oxford University Press blog.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Benefits Street: Channel 4 boss resents poverty porn accusation". Digital Spy. January 10, 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
  4. ↑ "‘Poverty porn’? Who benefits from documentaries on Recession Britain?". Joseph Rowntree Foundation. August 23, 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
  5. ↑ "The Scheme: Gritty TV or poverty porn?", The Guardian TV & Radio Blog, 28 May 2010
  6. ↑ "The Scheme: A brutal eye-opener or poverty porn?", The Scotsman, 28 May 2010
  7. ↑ "Debate over housing estate portrayal on The Scheme", stv.tv, 19 May 2010
  8. ↑ "The Scheme, a TV documentary of life on a Kilmarnock estate, has already been dubbed Scotland's Shameless. But what's life really like there?", The Scotsman, 20 May 2010
  9. ↑ McTague, Tom (January 13, 2014). "Benefits Street: Iain Duncan Smith uses 'poverty porn' show to justify savage Tory welfare cuts". Mirror Online. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
  10. ↑ TV and Radio (April 23, 2013). "Paralympic star Tanni Grey-Thompson attacks Channel 4 over its 'poverty porn’". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
  11. ↑ Charlie Brooker (January 12, 2014). "Benefits Street – poverty porn, or just the latest target for pent-up British fury?". The Guardian.
  12. ↑ Kanter, Jake (January 10, 2014). "C4 rejects Benefits Street's ‘poverty porn’ tag". Broadcast. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
  13. ↑ "Richard Chin: Slumdog Millionaire: Debate Poverty not "Poverty Porn"". Huffington Post. March 6, 2009. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
  14. ↑ "After Benefits Street, it's another round of poverty porn – with added celebrity". The Guardian. March 5, 2014. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  15. ↑ "Get on Up: From Rhythm to Richness". National Review. August 1, 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-02.