My Big Fat Greek Wedding

In the article, “Types of Women in Romantic Comedies Who Are Not Real”, actor and writer, Mindy Kaling, classifies the women’s roles from classic romantic comedies, while a critical analysis piece over the genre as well. Starting the article, She discusses her inspiration for the piece itself, furthermore expressing her love for romance, as well. Throughout the article, she separates the different types of women in these roles, whether it’s the obnoxious glamour girl, or the girl with an amazing personality, in latent terms, the difference between “The Klutz” and “The Ethereal Weirdo.” By the end of each example, she differentiates how cliche the storyline of the female character

In their journal article of “Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children's G-Rated Films,” Karin Martin and Emily Kazyak discussed how the animated Disney films as well as G-rated movies construct heterosexuality to young viewers – children, as they should not contain any of heterosexual scenes. According to the authors, young children are seemingly involved deeply in media world as it is a fruitful chapter of their sexual socialization; animated Disney films or other G-rated movies are what they are oftentimes engaged and attracted. It is always plotted as a stunning, beautiful lady waits for a brave, handsome guy to come to her life, then they would live happily ever after since the movies mark relationships between opposite sex repeatedly,

Romantic comedies are loved by many; however, not many stop to think about how these women are stereotyped every time, giving the female character limits on their personality. Actress, comedian, writer and producer Mindy Kaling in her essay, “Types of Women in Romantic Comedies Who Are Not Real” classifies the stereotypes given to women in romantic comedies. from her 2011 collection of essays Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), is a comic essay on how she loves romantic comedies, but knows that female characters are fictional, and explains how they can still be appreciated. Kaling in her essay presents the female stereotypes by classifying them, and doing so with humor. The seven classifications she used are, “The Klutz”, “The Ethereal Weirdo”, “The Woman Who Is Obsessed with Her Career and Is No Fun at All”, “The Forty-Two-Year-Old Mother of the Thirty-year-old Male Lead”, “The Sassy Best Friend”, “The Skinny Woman Who Is Beautiful and Toned but Also Gluttonous and Disgusting”, and “The Woman Who Works in an Art Gallery”. This essay is fun informative and great for Kaling’s fans, and romantic comedy fans alike. This essay transitions throughout, from entertainment to a slight defensive yet still humorous. Kaling is a talented woman who struggles as the career of an actress is not easy for a woman who does not follow the strict guidelines. Being thin, as she

The Portokalos family is Greek. Greek families tend to big, loud, and very loving, the Portokalos family is no exception. When Toula Portokalos’ family found out about her new boyfriend they were livid especially her father, Gus Portokalos. The reason for her family’s reaction was because her boyfriend wasn’t Greek, he was American. Gus was very against their relationship, he thought that what was best for his daughter was to marry a Greek man. For most of the movie Gus voices his opinion on the relationship. When they announce Toula announces her engagement, Gus realizes that there isn’t much he can change. He starts to understand how in love Toula is and how happy she is. He sacrifices his values and beliefs in order to support his daughter and to see her happy. At the end of the movie he shows his love and support by buying her and her new husband a nice home. Gus sacrificed his values and beliefs in order to see his daughter happy which is his goal, he accepted her marriage out of love. He loves his daughter and wanted to support her decisions, to do this he had to let go of his values and do what was best for his daughter

Choose a movie from the provided list. Watch the movie, focusing specifically on the family unit featured in the film. Compare and contrast the movie family’s characteristics and behaviors to the assessment criteria introduced in the class notes and readings from the textbook. Address each characteristic including specific examples from the movie to validate your analysis. You must use references (textbook, class notes, others), and these must be cited throughout your paper. Submit your analysis in this

The film I chose to analyze is Silver Linings Playbook because I was interested in the story when I read the synopsis of the movie. I thought that this would be a simple movie where the main characters would help each other because they had something in common. Reading the synopsis, I also thought that Pat would be back together with his wife, but at the end he found another love. In the next paragraphs I will show my knowledge on what I have learned this semester. On my analysis of Silver Linings, I will give examples that has the concept of language, nonverbal communication, listening, emotions, conflict, and close relationships.

Intended for the enjoyment of the present-day youth generation, the 2007 comedy film Knocked Up deals with more than just comedic issues. Technically introduced as a romantic comedy, this film serves more to its comedic orientation. With awkward romance and stoner mannerisms, the laughs are plentiful for the intentional audience of Knocked Up. However, as the audience is served its fill of laughter, issues are presented that rarely grace the silver screen. The director of this film, Judd Apatow, utilizes his dominion and influence over the audience to introduce the dominant ideology of Knocked Up. As seen in his previous film, The 40 Year Old Virgin, it is evident that the

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) is a Canadian-American film that tells the story of Greek-American, Toula (Fotoula) Portokalos. At thirty, Toula is still waitressing for her family’s restaurant, Dancing Zorbas. Constantly under pressure from her traditional, Greek parents to marry a Greek man and start a family, Toula seeks some distance from the family business. Toula starts attending college classes and eventually begins a new job at her Aunt Voula’s travel agency. After a short period of time in her new position, Toula meets non-Greek school teacher, Ian Miller. The two begin dating and quickly fall in love. Toula is the first in her family to date a non-Greek. Fearful of upsetting her father, Gus, she attempts to keep the

Claudia Bobadilla English 101S Professor Manukyan November,4 2014 Essay #2 Battle of the Sexes As it mainly is, women are known to be loving and caring while men are known to be the strong and dominant ones. These roles are seen everywhere, whether it is on television shows, music, or advertisements, there is a clear expectation from society although it has a twist to it. Women and men’s characteristics are put into a different perspectives and seeing this from that point view, we tend to copy what we see, but keeping in mind that not all us do that. We then see this as a harmless act because it can be put so easily into the media.

Comedy is also relatively short compared to other genre of movies. These two genres found to be the most popular movie genres than the other categories.

Nationalism, is the pride and belief that an individual vocalizes when they deem their nation greater than all others. Even with nationalism, we as individuals need to strive for a sense of discipleship. Being Greek, as portrayed in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and like many other cultures are nationalistic when speaking about Greece. Growing up as a Greek I had the opportunity practice Orthodoxy and become a Christ follower. These as well as many other aspects have shaped my views and beliefs today. Throughout history, nationalism has had good and bad reputation, but through the acts of discipleship I personally believe that people can change.

The regime, it appears, is right to fear sexuality, for the extent to which illicit sexual practices undermine the regime quickly becomes clear. The Commander reveals not only that he carried out a series of affairs with his Handmaids, but that there is a more or less "secret" club where higher-ups consort with women solely for sexual purposes. These actions demonstrate that the government cannot expunge illicit sexual acts merely by threatening fearful punishments. In fact, by destroying the privacy of even condoned sexual acts, the government seems to encourage those in power to act out against these regulations. Finally, when Offred takes a series of tremendous risks to continue her affair with Nick, she demonstrates the power of sexual

The film takes place in a Chicago Greek Community background where Toula and her family live comfortably. Toula’s father, Gus, is only interested in seeing her daughter becoming engaged with a man with Greek backgrounds (Hanks & Zwick, 2002). On the other hand, Toula aged 30 is increasingly becoming concerned about her age and thinks that she may be time barred as far as getting a marriage partner is concerned. For this reason, she is willing and ready to be married to anyone regardless of his ethnic racial or ethnicity. The importance of this setting is that it shows the cultural challenges that especially the immigrant families in America experience. While the parents may retain their cultural values when they migrate to America, children are born and bred in America and so for the children, the American culture is what they may know. Because of the differences between children and their parents, conflicts of values often arise.

In 2003, My Big Fat Greek Wedding made audiences laugh across the country. It is a movie about family, a large Greek family to be specific. This is important to the story, because it shows how their traditions cause their daughter Toula to look, and feel like a failure. Toula finds herself alone at age thirty working for her parents in their restaurant, she is as unhappy as that statement sounds. Being disappointed with her heritage pushes a wedge between her and her family, but especially her father. She starts plotting a way to make it to college, so her father will think it is his idea so he is not reluctant. She makes her plan sound like it will benefit the whole family, and the restaurant. After taking courses, Toula starts to change

With reference to relevant cultural theories analyse the representation of sexuality in a film/television text of your choice.