Intercultural Film Analysis, communications homework help

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MUST BE 6-7 Pages with works cited page, MLA format, size 12 font, Times New Roman or Arial, double spaced.

Please pay particular attention to the terms and the barriers to intercultural communication that were discussed in class listed below.

Dominant culture, bounded culture, cultural relativism, cultural inclusion, cultural exclusion, ethnocentrism, stereotyping, cultural pluralism, chauvinism, assimilation, collectivism. Make sure to note the scenes in the film where these items occur.

Please address the following questions in your paper:

What cultural aspects, values, attitudes, and behaviors of the respective cultures are shown?

Do you think the conflict in the film could also occur in your community?

What is the conflict about? How does the conflict evolve? Is it resolved?

Could the conflict have been avoided or resolved differently?

Does the film help you better understand the particular community?

To which character(s) do you relate most? Why?

Can you understand the motives of all the people involved, even if you don’t sympathize with them?

Are characters portrayed as stereotypes, or are they like real-life people?

Were you aware of the problems shown in the film before you watched it?

How has the film changed your attitude towards the problem and/or groups portrayed in the film?

Who is the director? Is he or she part of the minority or community shown? Did he or she have any advisers? (Names are usually listed in production credits at the end of the film.)

Could the film be set in your culture as well?

Would you recommend the film to others to learn about the particular intercultural aspects or conflict?

Choose ONE of the films listed below:

Double Happiness

Real Women Have Curves

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Bend It Like Beckham

The Joy Luck Club

Dirty Pretty Things

In This World

Yasmin

Crash

Mississippi Masala

Coming to America

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Heat and Dust

Hotel Rwanda

House of Sand and Fog

The Last King of Scotland

Lawrence of Arabia

Lost in Translation

Eleni

My Beautiful Laundrette

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Not Without My Daughter

A Passage to India

Smilla’s Sense of Snow

Snow Falling on Cedars

Syriana

El Norte

Gran Torino

The Wedding Banquet

Monsoon Wedding

East Is East

Do the Right Thing

Green Card

Borat

City of God

 

 
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