Hollywood movies and third world movies

The Unit States is producing and exporting massive quantities of movies and television programming to other countries. Hollywood as the biggest movie industry in the world always takes the main part of movie market.  Some movies opposite to Hollywood and made by colonial countries normally be called third world cinema. These kind movies are always use local language and the target audiences are native people.  

 

Hollywood movies have non-local identity, but one directed at global audiences. English is an official language of many countries and this is another reason that Hollywood movie easy to takes main cinema market: most of people around the world can understand it, bigger audiences. Vartan Messier (2011) says language is a tool of director to control the message who they want to send to. In some third world movies, director choose some information did not be translated, so this information likes a kind of invisible rope, link same language speakers together. Which is also strongly emphasized the national identity in the movie at same time.   

 

Not only language in the film but also traditional music, traditional customs, traditional dances. Third world film try to use all these cultural symbolics to make people attached their own cultural, their cultural identity.  And fight with Hollywood cinema at same time, in case that postcolonial by cultural attack. However, local film as a kind of local identity only can worked as remained people don't forgot about their cultural but cannot really against to Hollywood. Actually it is impossible due to American cultural already takes place of world cultural.  

 

·         Messier, V, 2011, Decolonizing National Consciousness Redux: Ousmane Sembène’s Xala as Transhistorical Critique, Postcolonial Text, Vol 6, No 4 City University of New York

·         Kearney, M, 1995, THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism, Annual Reviews Inc., University of California

 

Who are you?

“Migrants may become more possessive on issues of national sovereignty than do their compatriots at home, in spite of the fact that for these migrants, a peopled and territorial nation called "China" is becoming increasingly a fantasy space.” (Sun,W 2002)

Where are you from? You probably look like Indian but speaking Cantonese because you were born and grow up in Hong Kong.  You probably don't like Chinese food although you are Chinese because you living in England for long time. Can you tell where are you belonging in when your mom is Asian and your dad is Aussie?  Making cultural is not just simple like mix cultural together or create new cultural. We have to consider about cultural identity, cultural history, and the effect of cultural changing.

Internet creates instant cultural by fast speed of information highway just like immigration and national trade create globalization by global organization and global economic.

So what is the effect? Virtual community with high rate internet criminal, make friends online with fake identity, don't going out anymore, and fell in virtual world and then loss the abilities to join social activities.

What is the relationship about all these stuffs with globalization? Thinking about it, if all people can connect together in the one world, virtual world, these negative effects will only a drop in the ocean.  Scenes in The Matrix are not impossible to become true. In the new global but virtual world, what is the new ethic and law for us? Still have people care about where are you from? Can you still remember the history of your country long time ago? It is still necessary to know where the food comes from when people eat lemon chicken in Chinese restaurant but lemon chicken is not Chinese food actually.  When global village become true, the identity is still important?

Sun,W 2002, Leaving China:media, migration,and transnational imagination, Rowan & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., pp. 113-36.

Making cultural and Refugee

“Transnational organised crime which threatens to damage our societies and our economies” (Morrison, J 2003).

Australia received approximately 10900 asylum applications which take 1.04 per cent of the entire world in 2010(Ross, M, 2012).  Why Australia is a country with so many refugees and immigrations?

“I never heard Australia before, I come here with smuggling people for survive.” This is the answer from an Afghanistan refugee who named Najaf. He feels lucky that he can stay in Australia because Taliban as a famous terrorist group in Afghanistan. He does not realized the really lucky thing is smuggling of human beings as key element of crime did not stop he become an Australian.

Najaf write his story and his story be published as a novel book now. He is interviewed by lots of media department in Australia; cooperate with famous writer. Even Hollywood ever shoots him for documentary film. Najaf become a hero in a short moment under magnesium light. His book is read by lots of students as a kind of text book now. In his book, he talked a lot Afghanistan cultural. The traditional Afghanistan food, dance, tales and music, all of them become very attractive by his description.

Najaf`s experience makes me thought the terrorism attack in 2001 in New York.  America is always the biggest winner in global. However, why the US try to slow down in global now? Sometimes, cultural attack is much more horrible than physical attack, unless physical attack is visible.

I am not doubt the reason Najaf coming to Australia, but I am thinking about what effect of people moving by cross boundaries, even what is global bring to us? Najaf said, he is Afghanistan but he eats Chinese food with me, he accepts women going without Burka. And at same time, he organizes traditional Afghanistan night every year in Melbourne and teach girls traditional Afghanistan dance.

 

 

·                  Morrison, J 2003, ‘“The dark side of globalisation”: the criminalisation of refugees’, in R Robertson & KE White (eds), Globalization: critical concepts in sociology, Routledge, London, pp. 474–7.

·                  Ross, M, 2012, “Calling Australia home: refugees share their stories”, ABC news, Updated June 24, 2012 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-22/refugee-week-profiles/4036618>