[Spotykach] stereotypes exchange (films)

[jane mitchell]

Dear Olha,

the film project is definately a good one, i think it is definately a good way of getting people talkig because it is something everyone will have experienced, also not only in creating stereotypes intended for a foreign audience but 'internal' mythmaking based on cultural stereotypes. 
>From Australian film I can compare this with something really crappy- "Crocodile Dundee" making such an extreme perversion of 'Australian man' intended to fit American stereotypes,versus a comedy that was locally very popular- the Castle, which fitted Australian ideas of their 'type' (but actually I can say I love this film and I havent found any non-Australian who finds it funny)
I dont suppose anyone has much of an interest in the Australian thing, but Czech films often  do pretty much the same thing, and with a very similar cultural type- provincial, naive, honest and  as a result of all that very charming and loved by audiences. 
By comparison Russian charachters are almost without exception: men- involved in criminal activity or the ruthless type, women- willing to compromise morals for money or passport possibilities.  My friend pointed out that for many czechs this is the idea of 'the east', and that in other countries czechs are represented in exactly the same way due to their 'east-ness'.
something on a similar topic is the 'ethnic comedy' thing in 'western countries'- for example Australia has a big Greek community and a greek-australian stage play 'wogs out of work' parodying greek-australian (stereotypes)was immensely popular and spawned a tv programme (Akropolis now), and more recently self parody mixed with playing up on stereotypes amongst the lebanese community with a comedy series 'fat pizza', made by australian- lebanese.
in england as I understand it pretty much the same thing happened with 'goodness gracious me' from the asian diaspora.
I dont know if there is a german-turkish equivalent or soemthing from other countries, but could be something to talk about.
anyway, on another subject, I dont know if i have to reply anywhere to say about coming to the potsdam conference,if i do please tell me- anyway, i will be in touch before then, look very much forward to seeing you (all)
jane! 

 
----- Original Message -----
From: olhas <olhas at web.de>
To: "moja tvoja ne ponimaj" <spotykach at lists.nadir.org>
Subject: [Spotykach] stereotypes exchange (films)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:37:41 +0200

> 
> Dear friends,
> 
> now I am in  a process of making research on the topic: "Eastern 
> and Western Europe in clishes on example of films industry" which 
> would be part of seminars sessions "Role of media in imposing 
> stereotypes/prejudises/mythoses about Eastern and Western Europe". 
> I am working on the lists of films which gave a sagnificant input 
> in developing certain images about East and West. As an example, 
> the film Window to Paris (1993) 
> (http://www.nd.edu/~adinega/russfilm/student.reviews/Shelece.Window.html). 
> There are plenty of them also to find thrugh internet. What I am 
> interested to know if people would like also to see such a films 
> during seminar and discuss the topic and make some statement from 
> the seminar point of view. I am also very interested  in some 
> alternative film if exists such where there is an attempt to break 
> those clishes. Therefore I wanted ask you in case someone have got 
> such films in memories and would like to speak about, to see it and 
> have discussion afterwords, possibly also for public. The question 
> is if someone can bring some films with or I can try find it here 
> and order it from the internet. It could be nice make something 
> like a collage of films which underline how far we all under the 
> stereotypes. Me personally feel like "any brutal word" when I see 
> always the same scene of dronk Russians making fun whole film 
> trough (not mater which one) compare with super-clean, maked-up 
> Western heros showing unreal world where they supposed beloned to. 
> More about on the seminar...
> 
> best wishes, Olga _______________________________________________
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