Essays on Bend It Like Beckham
Social geography is a hugely important theme in human geography. Social geography is a vastly broad field of work that focuses its attention on the “socio-spatial differences, power relations, and inequalities that shape every person’s life” (Cloke et al, 2011). Inequality is a sub-discipline of social geography which is highly debated across the social sciences....
PARAGRAPH 1 – Bend it like Beckham embodies the collection of themes and genres Affecting the positions and roles for women who play sports, this is not a gender typical storyline surfaced with cultural differences. Set in Hounslow, West London and Hamburg. PARAGRAPH 2 – A comedy, sports, teen, romance, indie film, coming-of-age fiction, drama...
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (BILB): Starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Shaheen Khan and Archie Panjarbi. Directed by Gurinda Chadha. Rated PG-13 (for language and sexual content). Fox Searchlight Pictures. 112 mins. BILB directed by Gurinda Chadha, follows the story of an Indian teenager, Jesminder Bhamra (Parminder Nagra), fighting against tradition,...
A popular culture affects society in many ways. The effect of pop culture is how it builds and strengthens interactions with people who are also into the same kind of things. Youth and adults are the most influenced and is the biggest consumer of pop culture. The film, ‘The Maze Runner,’ directed by Wes Ball...
In this essay, I will discuss how women in sport are seen using examples from three films made in United Kingdom, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The following chosen films are Bend it Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha, 2002), Chak De! India (Shimit Amin, 2007), and Wadja (Haifaa al-Mansour, 2013). I will argue the differences between women...
