WEEK 10 The Influence of American Movies

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WEEK 10 The Influence of American Movies

• SLIDE 2 International students views
• SLIDE 3 Inna Ignatovich from Russia, Vanessa
  Rosenfeld from Germany, Jung Ping Lin from Taiwan
  
• SLIDE 4 Hollywoods views of other cultures
  (video What old movies mean)
• SLIDE 5 Racism and Immigrants (video
  German/Crocodile Dundee)
• SLIDE 6 Sexual stereotypes (video Superman and
  the Bride)
• SLIDE 7 US TV shows in England
• SLIDE 8 US cultures world influence what
  Americans think
• SLIDE 9 Movies as protest VIDEO CLIP FROM GLOBAL
  INSIGHTS 4 (video Insights 4)
• SLIDE 10 Economics of globalisation and movies
  (video MTV)
• SLIDE 11 From films to computer games
• SLIDE 12 Video games and globalisation Global
  Arcade
• SLIDE 13 Computer games and racism

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A glance at movie billboards worldwide shows how
popular American movies are today in many
countries. International students share their
views on the impact of this phenomenon in their
countries. From last week (English is native to
only seven countries) and widely spoken in the
Benelux countries (Belgium, The Netherlands and
Luxembourg), Scandinavia and India English to
Japanese to English - AltaVista Babel Fish
Translation, In English I am trying to learn
more about globalization and whether it really is
a doctrine of imperialistic control or a helpful
format to bring the world together. English to
Japanese to English It is principle of the
useful format where that really brings
imperialistic control or the world together, how
as for me, concerning the globalization trying
the fact that it learns many.
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Inna Ignatovich from Russia In my opinion, one of
the most serious influences of American culture
on my country is created by Hollywood movies.
Because of the economic domination of the U.S.A.
in the world and serious political and economical
problems in my country, the movie theaters in our
cities are filled with Hollywood action
movies. The low financing available to our movie
directors doesn't give them the possibility of
creating high quality art, so the movie theaters
are swamped with low cost American films--violent
action films. This type of dominance creates a
negative effect on the young generation and can
increase crime. In this situation, we see not
just the spread of culture to another country,
but also the spread of the problems of that
culture. read more http//staff.uscolo.edu/pete
rssl/topics/globalization/movies-russia.htm Vaness
a Rosenfeld from Germany The cinemas would be
empty without Hollywood. The American movie
industry has been popular in Germany since the
1920s. In contrast, the German film industry
wasn't and still isn't very big although the
production of TV programs such as series, operas,
game shows and live shows is very high. The odd
thing about movies imported from the states and
about the German mentality is that Germans like
to watch these movies in the German language.
Therefore, all of them get dubbed. As a result,
they seem not to be very different. For this
reason, people don't think that Germany is losing
its cultural identity watching exported movies
from the U.S. read more http//staff.uscolo.edu/
peterssl/topics/globalization/movies-germany.htm
Jung Ping Lin from Taiwan Whenever I see a good
American movie, I am always touched, but inside
my feelings are different. Because these are
movies for Americans, they cannot move me the
same way. That's why I wish we could have our own
movies. read more http//staff.uscolo.edu/pete
rssl/topics/globalization/movies-taiwan.htm
SHOWING FOUR-MINUTE CLIP FROM Lawrence of
Arabia
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Hollywoods views of other cultures

• Arabs
• Viewers see American adolescents, intelligence
  agents, military personnel, even Inspector
  Clouseau's son, massacring obnoxious Arab Muslims
  in numerous films such as Navy SEALs (1990),
  Killing Streets (1991), The Human Shield (1992),
  The Son of the Pink Panther (1993), Bloodfist V
  Human Target (1994) and True Lies (1994).
• Hollywood's studios needlessly maligned Arabs
• The Rage of Paris (1921),
• Point of No Return (1993),
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990),
• Back to the Future (1985),
• The American President (1995),
• Disney -Aladdin (1992),
• James Bond movie series.
• MORE
• Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American
• Popular Culture - Jack Shaheen
• Deconstructing Hollywood Negative Stereotyping
  in Film
• Stereotyping and double standards in Hollywood
  Islam
• Many links on Race Ethnicity
• Stereotype of the Month Contest

• American Indians
• Romantic female
• painting by Thomas Cole -
• Used as Sport image see Native Americans should
  NOT be used as mascots
• Washington Redskns Kansas City Chiefs Atlanta
  Braves
• Chicago Blackhawks

Braves Chiefs Indians Redskins Warriors other total
275 137 1575 93 717 59
New York 6 8 105 3 32 6 160
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Racism and Immigrants

• VIDEO 3-MINUTES What Do Those old Films Mean?
• minority images in American films during
  1920s-1960s. From Racism on the Silver Screen
  (ROLL OVER URL TO VIEW CLIPS)
• For more on Stereotypes visit Trinity Colleges
  site on stereotyping. http//library.trinity.wa.ed
  u.au/issues/stereo.htm
• Test for hidden bias http//www.tolerance.org/hid
  den_bias/02.html
• You need to do these tests for next weeks
  reading 2 there are eleven short self-tests
  Pick three tests - I do not want your answers but
  a couple of sentences of what you discovered from
  each test.
• VIDEO 3-MINUTES CROCODILE DUNDEE

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Sexual stereotypes

• Video clip on superman and the bride video
  Sexual Stereotypes in Media in the library P 96
  S5 S495X 1975A
• Cultural Imperialism video Global Media in the
  library P 90 G56V 1997

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US TV shows in England
BBC 1 BBC 2 ITV-3 Ch.4 Ch.5
The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest The New Adventures of Superman The Flintstones Harry and The Henderson Woody Wood Pecker Star TreckDeep space 9 The Simpsons Buffy The Vampire Slayer Taz-Mania Jungle Fever The Jerry Springer Show Sabrina, The Teenaged Witch Buffy The Vampire Slayer Star Treck The Next Generation Scooby and Scrappy Doo Pokemon Batman Sesame Street The Cosby Show I Dream of Jennie Ricki Lake Ally McBeal South Park The Pink Panther Show Home Improvement Hell Raiser 3 Hell On Earth The Roseanne Show Sunset Beach The Oprah Winfrey Show Dallas JR Returns Leeza WCW Worldwide Melrose Place Xena Hercules The Legendary Journeys The Real LAPD

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US cultures world influence what Americans
think

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Movies As Protest

• ''Life and Debt,'' a documentary by Stephanie
  Black, with a commentary written by Jamaica
  Kincaid, looks at the effect of the International
  Monetary Fund on the economy of Jamaica.
• Set in Jamaica, this film is a case study of how
  contemporary free trade policies and global
  financial institutions such as the International
  Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade
  Organization affect the economies of developing
  nations. Includes interviews with IMF Deputy
  Director Stanley Fischer, Haitian president
  Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Jamaica's former Prime
  Minister Michael Manley as well as tourists,
  farmers, Rastafarians, factory workers and
  others.
• The IMF ideally lends money - An IMF-backed small
  business loan in Jamaica might carry 25 percent
  interest.
• This movie is available in the library (UALB ULIB
  RBR)
• VidCas HC 154 L54V 2001 ON RESERVE
• VIDEO CLIP FROM GLOBAL INSIGHTS 4

• LIFE AND DEBT

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Economics of globalisation and Movie Making

• The Globalization of Hollywood results in the
  following
• decrease in job security for American film
  workers
• widening of the wealth gap globally
• and merge of cross-culture values and themes in
  film content.
• The standard of living in America, was superior
  to that in Mexico at a ratio of 3 to 1 in 1950,
• compared to 16 to 1 in the year 2000
• BACON, David. "Can Workers Beat Globalization?"
  in New California Media Online, February 18,
  2000. Available online at lthttp//www.labournet.d
  e/diskussion/wipo/bacon.htmlgt viewed on Tuesday,
  November 04, 2003.
• MTV programs local content see MTV adding a 'made
  for China' look MTV adding a 'made for China'
  look

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MTV

• MTV Programs Local Content See MTV Adding a 'Made
  for China' Look MTV Adding a 'Made for China'
  Look
• Rock'n'Roll Enters Iranian Homes at a Rate of 50
  TVs Every Working Hour. Estimated Satellite
  Dishes Being Installed Daily in Iran 400. Homes
  Reached by MTV Europe 65 Million ("Digitations",
  1994 10).
• In 1981 MTV began a journey into the minds of
  American youth (Station brochure, 1995).
• "ONE WORLD ONE IMAGE ONE CHANNEL"
• In 1987 a sister company was set up in Europe.
• By 1994, MTV Europe (MTVE) had overtaken its
  American sibling in terms of households reached,
  to become officially the biggest TV channel on
  earth.
• In its various guises - as MTVE, MTV Australia,
  MTV Japan, MTV South America - MTV spans five
  continents, is beamed into over one hundred
  countries, and has potential access to more than
  a quarter of a billion homes worldwide
• MTV is owned by Viacom - one of the planet's
  largest media conglomerates. The very model of a
  modern multi-national, Viacom own - or at the
  very least hold majority shares in - Paramount
  Pictures, the British video rental outlet
  Blockbuster Videos, the TV channel Nickleodeon,
  and Simon Shuster (the world's leading
  publishing house).
• From Getting Dumber and Dumber MTV's Global
  Footprint by Simon Philo

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Alternatives

• Iran version of MTV music clips
• CRW - Clandestine Radio Watch
• Afghanistan Inside List
• Is the Online Cuban station (run by the US
  Government) the voice of Cuba? http//www.martinot
  icias.com/ Translate Presidente George W. Bushs
  message Babel Fish Translation
• Iran television (US)
• Tibetan Royal Year of 2129, Year of the Water
  Horse

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From films to computer games

• Final Fantasy The Spirits Within
• released in American cinemas on July 11, 2001
• Japanese company Sony owns Columbia Pictures, the
  movie's official distributor in addition, it was
  the developer of the Playstation, the console
  platform of the video games that inspired this
  motion picture

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Video games and globalisation

• Positive such as - Global Arcade is a site to
  play arcade games and learn about globalization
  and what is happening to people around the world.
• Some of the games to play World Trade
  Organization - Globalization and Silicon Valley-
  Was Your Dinner Genetically Engineered?
• Negative - Study Video games contain "unhealthy"
  messages for girls
• Slightly over half (54 per cent) of games
  surveyed containd female lead characters while 92
  per cent had male lead characters.
• Of games featuring female characters, 38 per cent
  displayed significant body exposure.
• More than half (54 per cent) of female characters
  were depicted as fighting or being violent.
• Fifty-four percent of the games surveyed
  contained female lead characters while 92 percent
  had male lead characters.
• Characters in Games for Young Children
  Exclusively White Nearly All Heroes White Few
  Female Characters

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Computer games and racism

• Ethnic Cleansing," a computer game
• Racism and computer games
• Resistance Records