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My Beautiful Launderette Flashcards

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scene where Johnny and Tonya ride the bike is an allusion to

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Singing in the Rain

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the bright colors are visually representative of

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romantic comedies

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not an ordinary romcom: it’s a more … film

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serious

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conventions of romcom: … meets …, something gets in the way, they ..
In Bollywood, the thing that gets in the way is …

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boy; girl; end up together; family

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British rewriting of … and … –> two traditions coming together

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Hollywood; Bollywood romcoms

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one of the first … romances

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immigrant

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romcoms are a … form

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heterosexual

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at beginning, Johnny and Omar are immune to everything going on around them–establishes the … between them, but it is difficult to recognize because it is … –> … to each other

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sexual tension; homosexual; exclusive attention

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80s was the …, so homosexual relationships became more … because of the panic –> this is how the … was played out in the movie, people were saying that it was … for homosexuality

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AIDS crisis; mainstreamed; AIDS crisis; God’s punishment

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Kureshi: radical

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Indian filmmaker

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Stephen Freares: also radical

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English playwright

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Omar is punishing Johnny for his … his revenge is by .. at him, … him around

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racism; yelling; ordering

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the film has an … plot

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episodic

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no soppy

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sentimentalism

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even though Omar and Johnny love each other, there is a lot of … between them

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conflict

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Omar’s marriage proposal is entirely

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cynical

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Omar is not a … protagonist. The racist English boy, Johnny, turns out to be more likeable, because he is more ..

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likeable; lost

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Pakistanis turn out to be equally …: when they kick out a Jamaican guy (…) –> implosion of …

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racist; Rastafarian; Black Britain

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uncle uses … to throw the Jamaican out, and there’s a mural with a … and the … in the guy’s apartment

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Johnny; sickle; black panther salute

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Black Britain: profound ..
shortage of labor, and English people invited … and … immigrants to come to England and work there
In 70s, there is a racist movement because they couldn’t … the … people
- Anti-racist plot: radical .. movement, identified as ..
- … riots

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anti-racism; West Indian; Pakistani; assimilate; “brown”; anti-racist leftist; blacks; anti-race

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black britain starts breaking out, and this film is about the … of that. it is also showing how Asian businessmen colluded with … (ronald reagan’s friend, …)
pakistani businessman willing to make out alliance with … to throw out the … –> showing South Asian racism against Blacks
This moment in the film is symbolic of destruction of … Even Johnny understands that there’s something wrong about this. He says that there’s no … among the Pakistanis.
… in this movie: even immigrants who are discriminated against can be ..

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collapse; Margaret Thatcher; neoliberal-capitalism; skinhead; Black Rastafarian; Black Britain; solidarity; self-critique; discriminatory

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Paki is a … term, which Johnny uses …

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racist; ironically

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racism means discriminating against other groups when you have more … than them (this is why there’s no racism against whites, bc of the power dynamic)
racism is when dislike has … impact due to …

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power; structural; power difference

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part of why Omar proposes is because he wants

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his uncle’s money

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Tonya runs away because she knows that her father is … her, by giving her to Omar to keep the money …, and he would be able to manage … and the …

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disposing; in the family; her; money

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Tonya runs away because of her father’s … and …
she is the classic immigrant child who is being subjected to …, while she is surrounded by …
idea that she should live in a different culture but not … –> Tonya represents this dilemma

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hypocrisy; inequality; cultural normative; hypocrisy; become of that culture

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complexity in … experience that the movie tries to depict. the movie does not … it. –> complex …, goes to the edge on everything

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immigrant; romanticize; morality

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ideas that man can fall in love and still be a … to him, that those who receive racism can …, etc.

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jerk; hand it out

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Omar in England bc his father was a … who was a … that went to England and was friends with the … –> They come from a family of … Father is now alcoholic bc government in England … and leftists were ..

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journalist; leftist Pakistani; prime minister; privilege; changed; pushed out

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movie has many …, and the main plot is the …

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subplots; romance

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subplots include: …, …, shift toward …, …

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immigrants; queerness; right; neoliberal-capitalism

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romcom is filmic version of … My Beautiful Laundrette … the marriage plot by making it ..
accomplishes this through the … and the …

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marriage plot; deconstructs; antiheteronormative; immigrant conflict; queerness

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heteronormative: … is the norm, causes surprise when things deviate

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heterosexuality

34
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the movie deconstructs … as well

it also acts as a … film through Tonya

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parent’s marriage; feminist

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Johnny is ../…, doesn’t have the same … s Omar does

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lonely; alienated; family structure as

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film trying to take apart the concept of … –> Omar is very much …, but he comes from a … background

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culture; English; Pakistani

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a man would not lose his social standing/respectability if he has a .., whereas a woman does. This is why Nasser gets away with it

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mistress

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an individual is not an authority of their …, because they mostly learn about it from …, and different sets have different … on their culture

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culture; parents; views

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culture is a system of …, in which most things are … –> often … and …, despite the … that are present

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contestation; argued over; redefined; changed; parameters

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for nasser to have a white woman as a mistress is a

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status thing

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nasser’s wife is presented as .., indicating that she has no real …
but she is not completely …, because she … and exacts …
movie showing a certain hypocrisy –> shifts into something …, in that the wife’s concoction actually works

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mute; authority; powerless; breaks up the affair; revenge; surreal

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Nasser’s daughter (tonya) calls him on his

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hypocrisy

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rachel claims that tonya is feeding off her father’s money too, but this is unfair because tonya is very … and is living in a situation in which she is supposed to be obedient. tonya is more … than she is accused of being because she … to make it on her own

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young; principled; runs away

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what tonya does is she blames rachel, when she should be blaming … Emphasizing how the movie is … in its relationships
movie has complex portrayal of …

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her father; complex; immigrant family

45
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plot is …: goes in and out of certain situations

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picaresque

46
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beginning of film is intentionally …, and the film itself is …

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disorienting; episodic

47
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question of … is important in this movie: … of film is being accessed to represent specific ideas

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conventions; history

48
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plot seems disorienting because of the kind of … thing going on and the fact that it is a … romance

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love triangle thing; homosexual

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Hollywood films now are … in terms of how queer, and all, stories are represented, how the … is used, etc. This movie is not a mainstream film because it defies these conventions with the …, etc.

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conservative; camera; jumpy shots

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In paradise lost, … becomes important, in pride and prejudice this idea is made into a … (made into something …)

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companionate marriage; storyline; novelistic

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Paradise Lost is presenting one of the earlier attempts to imagine .., which comes out of Protestant notion that even … should get married, that marriage is not only for .., it’s also for …, …, and …

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companionate marriage; priests; procreation; love; friendship; companionship

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pride and prejudice shows how the novel as a form, as a genre, takes on the idea of …, and makes it part of the …, which gives you the … in which the novel moves towards .. as a …

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companionate marriage; storyline; marriage plot; marriage; resolution

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My Beautiful Laundrette still has …, but is deconstructing the conventions of a … and of a … It does so by changing … expectations, among other things, subverts .. convention of marriage plot
… lens frames the way we view the movie
deconstruction of marriage plot occurs through deconstruction of …

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a marriage plot; romantic comedy; marriage plot; gender; heteronormative; heteronormative; romantic comedy

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