Recognition Of A Contemporary Europe

A film as popular culture becomes something that is often criticized by the Cultural Studies. A film can show many aspects of cultures because the producer tries to deliver his/her imagination or reality on it. However, it is not rare when a writer or producer deliver something about prediction or assumption if some people use a certain ideology to a society. This kind of prediction based on imagination can be clearly seen on the adaptation film, Divergent.

Palestinian identity has lasted the test of time through exile, diaspora, and attempts at cultural white-washing. It is through these situations that Palestine has created a unique sense of identity, unlike many nation-states. The Palestinian identity has come to transcend borders, nationality, and mediums. It is not only represented in politics and protest, but in personal expression and the arts. This paper argues that both national identity and cultural productions of Palestine represent the diaspora through noticeable adaptation based on location and support the idea that Palestinian identity isn't singularly definable.

During the period of 1492 to 1750, Europe experienced drastic changes during their Age of Discovery. As a result of contact and colonization, Western Europe’s economy, political, social, and military systems changed, but also maintained certain aspects that enabled them to build strong civilizations. Such changes include increased (international) trade routes, more centralized governments such as monarchies, decreased unifying influence of the Catholic Church, and increased interest in military conquest and expansion.

The development of Europe and Western Culture are highlighted by five key dates. The main four key dates and there are as follows:

Disney’s Aladdin is a fit example of misrepresentation of diverse cultures from a Westernized perspective. Disney is famous for lending representations of world from a Western viewpoint. According to Edward Said, orientalism is a way of expressing Arab peoples and Islamic cultures as compared to Western or European society (Palestine Diary). Said’s explains orientalism is the framework that we use to

This film has a large array of ethnic groups that are present in

Stuart Hall’s Cultural Identity and Diaspora focuses on the current issues of identity, cultural practices and cultural representations. He analyses the visual representations of Afro-Caribbean’s and challenges the notions of identity from African and European places. Hall then goes on to explain how Caribbean cinema has chosen to both, refute and embrace European influence. He presents two different forms of thinking about cultural identity. In the first position, Hall defines ‘cultural identity’ in terms of one, shared culture, which people with a shared history and ancestry hold in common. The first model uses “stable, unchanging and continuous frames of reference and meanings’ to present the idea of shared culture, history, and ancestry rooted beneath ‘more superficial imposed ‘selves’” (Hall, 223).

The historical subject addressed in the film is the Holocaust, which was an unfortunate time when the German’s took over all different parts of Europe, focusing on the Jews, Africans,

Indeed, to explore the focus of analysis, the study will be completed by applying orientalism criticism proposed by Edward Said. Thereby, this research will be a qualitative research where the data is taken from the film Avatar, library

Upon the ‘discovery’ of the American continents by Christopher Columbus, European nations such as Great Britain, Spain, and France founded transcontinental empires through the exploitation of both the natural resources of the Americas and the indigenous population, the Native Americans or ‘American Indians.’ In colonization, tens of thousands of Native Americans were killed, thousands more were forced into labor on European owned plantations, and few remnants of their civilizations survived extinction. The above quote encapsulates the prevailing European justification for the decimation it brought upon the Americas. Through the use of loaded terms as the ‘inherent inferiority,’the statement condemns an entire continent’s worth of diverse

Western European people had endured a series of changes during the late medieval period. Changes can be categorized into two aspects: politically and socially. On politics, Popes were not as strong as they were due to conflicts between the state and the church. Socially, people began to live a religion- dominated life, and experienced active sexism towards women. These changes, either positive or negative, have become an undivided part of European History.

By analyzing the historical contexts of these specific movements, we take a deeper look at society's social, religious, economic, and political conditions that existed during a certain time and place. These relevant factors profuse mass influence into a filmmakers decisions while in the production process of a film. Additionally, these components have the role of establishing distinct trends in the film industry. Each movement has its own purpose for creating each film in regards to a stylistic standpoint.

Pallister, J. (1997). Colonial Precolonialism in West African Cinema: Yeelen. Crossings (Binghamton, N.Y.), 1(2), 174-197.

According to a paper by Buchowski, Orientalism was originally defined by Edward Said as “a set of discursive practices through which the West structured the imagined East politically, socially, military, ideologically, scientifically and artistically.” (Buchowski abstract) In film Orientalism most commonly refers to offensively portraying characteristics, customs or qualities of people in the Orient, an imagined name for the countries in Asia and North Africa. In academic discourse, Orientalism is a tool used to enforce Eurocentrism, the belief that Western society is the center of the world. (Shohat and Stam 2) Edward Said claimed that “the European representation of these people is a typical cultural creation that enables those powerful to legitimize their domination over those subjugated and conquered.” (Buchowski abstract)

Europe is a continent north of Africa and west of Asia. The word Europe was first used to describe central Greece until around 500 BCE when it began to apply to the entire Greek mainland. Europe was always described as a continent, and was also always distinguished from Asia. The origins of the word are found in mythology. Europa was the daughter of Agenor, king of the city of Tyre on the coast of Sidon. One day while she was sitting by the sea, Zeus came out of the water in the form of a white bull. He then took her and ran across the sea to the meadows of Gortyn, in Crete, and fathered her three children, Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon. After she was kidnapped, the people of her kingdom started to call the land in the general direction towards which she was taken “Europe.” In addition to that, one of the moons of the planet Jupiter is called Europa, named after the myth.