Differences Between American Films And Hindi Films

Have you ever wondered how High Schools are in other countries? Despite sharing some minor similarities, the differences between Nicaraguan and American High School education are clear. Such as, note-taking methods, grading system, classroom environment.

In America today there are clear views on what masculinity and femininity. These views have given Americans the outlines for how they must behave based on what gender they are. Masculinity is constructed in American culture through many different forms of media, so as the ideals and values attached to masculinity change in the media so has the ideals and values that the everyday man see as being part of masculinity. In this respect the ideals and values of masculinity are shaped by what the media shows it to us.

The concept of a hero has been around for many generations, and the meaning of a hero is defined in ways people grasp its idea. A hero can be a person who has a superpower and is willing to make a personal sacrifice for the benefit of others or can be an ordinary everyday person who just wants to help people out of his or her own heart. Linda Seger’s article, “Creating the Myth,” tackles the idea of a “Hero 's Myth,” and shows the ten steps of how heroes are transformed from an ordinary person to the Savior. On the other hand, Robert B. Ray piece titled, “The Thematic Paradigm,” emphasizes that in modern films, it is either having an “Outlaw Hero or an Official Hero,” which he uses three stages to demonstrates how they are different each other in the way they perform in the society. Further, the article, “Out of Character: Wonder Woman’s Strength Is Her Compassion - What Happened?” by Stevie St. John, explains how Wonder Woman was viewed as a compassionate woman in the 1940s and 1950s, and in the 2000s she changes into a more violent person. In this essay, I argue that a hero is subjective, and is defined by the villain or event that they had to adapt to suddenly.

Masculinity can be defined as the behaviours, social roles, and relations of men within a given society in addition to the meanings that are attributed to them. The term masculinity stresses gender, unlike male, which stresses biological sex. Despite, this we often times see masculinity being represented as directly correlating to men with an inability to adhere to this is shown making you less of a "man". As put by Katz (1999) there is an expectation that men on screen must be void of emotion, not backing down from a fight, tough and an embodiment of the male gaze. Katz (1999) argues that essentially what

The portrayal of superheroes in films has changed in terms of their character, appearance, style and strength. Superheroes has been a popular theme in hollywood films since its inception. They are what peoples imagination can only think of. A perfect human being who saves the world .The first time superhero appeared on T.V was “The Adventures of Captain Marvel” in 1941. Superheroes was on the rise within popular comic books in 1930′s to the 1940’s as well in which they were considered the ‘Golden Age of Comic Books’ . Comic books became widespread and popular which translated into making films about them.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni highlights the differences between Indian and American culture in her collection of short stories, Arranged Marriage. Each tale utilizes a different narrator, whether it is first or third person narration, to highlight the struggles women face in all arranged marriages. Many of these women live in America, yet India’s strict moral code still burdens them. In “Doors”, Preeti struggles to balance her American beliefs with the Indian beliefs of her husband, similarly to Anju, who wonders if her life and pregnancy would be different if she lived in India throughout “The Ultrasound”. In “The Word Love”, a woman must confront her situation and push her boundaries. Divakaruni shows the highs and lows of arranged marriages, proving that I would not thrive in a commitment made without my input.

Lucas in her articles regarding Australian masculinity presented in cinemas suggests that the themes of social perception and presentation of masculinity and maleness have been repeatedly used in Australian cinemas (Lucas Page 138). She adds that images of masculinity in cinema may reflect and maintain the dominant hegemonic masculinity, but as well may also challenge the dominant concepts of masculinity (Lucas 139). A large number of Australian cinemas display standard perspectives of masculinity, which promotes the binary impression of male and maleness, which includes logical, domination, violence or competition (Lucas page 139-140).

The US characters who bring their partner to the US are portrayed as naïve who are easily gullible because of their deficiency in being a “normal white American.” Their naivety is not positively conveyed. Rather it functions to make the US characters somewhat miserable who are located at the bottom of the white supremacy system, that is, they are barely better than the Other. Their deficiency in being a normal white American is entailed in their failure in full performance of masculinity (or femininity). In their portrayals, the American characters’ masculinity or femininity are not fully performed due to their inability to achieve their roles in gender and sexuality.

The media labels Latinos as “Latin Lovers” (oversexed seducers), the “Crook”, and thugs. As for the Asian population, Asian men are considered as geeks, math whizzes, and are viewed as non masculine. Usually, the only time Asian men are viewed as masculine is when they practice martial arts. Asian women can be considered to be one dimensional, sexualized representations, and can also shown as the “nerdy” type throughout multiple shows and films. Native American tropes include silent, stoic men or bloodthirsty warriors.

As a second generation Indian American woman, much of my experience as a gendered person has been shaped by familial values, especially those regarding the respective roles of men and women in the Indian household. The combination of a highly patriarchal society and an emphasis on family as the most dominant institution in Indian life translates to a family in which women are subordinate to men in every way. My gendered experience in an Indian family unit was not as extreme as traditional families in India due to the privilege I had of growing up in an upper-middle class socioeconomic household in a progressive American society. However, gender expectations in my family were rooted in the South Asian immigrant experience, exemplified through

How are these ideas important to society and what group are these pieces geared towards? The ideas are important to the male gender because no matter what a man tells you they are always looking for the true ideas of manhood even if they don't say so themselves; thus, these pieces (movie and narrative) are aimed towards intriguing the males in society. In conclusion, we can see multiple key ideas presented by both the narrative and the movie but the one key idea that sticks out and is "Key" to both plots is masculinity because masculinity is defined and shown in both pieces, whether it is implicitly or

Everybody has their own definition of Culture – and when this word is used generally, most audiences have a rough idea of its meaning. Culture usually refers to the beliefs, ideas, languages, rituals and traditions by certain communities, that are passed from generation to generations continuously over the past many centuries. In society, two cultures cannot be same if one is located on the west coast and the other one is all the way to the East. As we compare, the American and Indian cultures have very vast differentiation between them. While the culture of America is a mixture of different cultures since each immigrant internally packed his or her previously

The changes thorough media have led to the decline of the traditional hero archetype. To relate to society throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, television shows and film have had to conform to new standards. In the beginning, any film was

Apart from the aspect of music, the mass media also spread the extreme concepts to us which influences our view of gender image in the dramas and books. As people always said that, male and female should be equal that should not have the mind of stereotype. Human have equal right so they can choose what they want to do and what they want to be. In the past, the popular culture always spread the value of men are strong such as the Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Captain America...almost all super heroes are male. They are the dream man in all women' hearts. But nowadays, the dream man in women' hearts are changed. The man who is caring or being a house-husband are more attractive such as in the Korean popular drama "The man comes from star", the main character always take care his lover and he can do housework

One can also observe that men in the Indian culture are more dominant than women. In an article by Katrina Beedy, Indian men dictate the rules for relationships, especially when it comes to women, (Beedy). In addition according to an article by Asia society, the indian culture is very hierarchial, (Asia Society). With having such a culture, women have the role of maintaining the family. For example, in the movie, Jess’s entire family was at her house to celebrate her sister getting married, all of the women were asking Jess about when she’s going to settle down and marry a strong man, (Chadha, "Bend it like Beckham"). This shows the characteristics of a collectivistic culture because members of not just the immediate family but also the entire family are assumed to roles to keep the family functioning. The opposite can be assumed about the westerners (they are an individualistic culture) because the British girl called