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Copy and paste the links into the address bar and you will go to the
videos without being asked for any passwords or login. I had the same
issue when I simply clicked on the links in the email.

Chris

J. Chris Moos
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>>> Romie Littrell <littrellaom@YAHOO.CO.NZ> 10/27/08 10:15 PM >>>
Milton, do you have the generic links; these all require an open.ac.uk
login?
Romie

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From: M.P.Fenton-OCreevy <M.P.Fenton-Ocreevy@OPEN.AC.UK>
Subject: Film clips for teaching cross cultural management
To: IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Date: Monday, 27 October, 2008, 11:32 PM


Many thanks to all the colleagues who responded to my request for ideas
about film clips useful in getting class discussion going around cross
cultural management issues.

I include below a compilation of the advice I received (though the
listserver and directly). In case it is of interest, in the session I
ran ( at short notice for career young professionals in an oil company)
I did use the following youtube clips in kicking off our discussion of
cultural differences:

The first is a clip of an funny advert which I used to get them talking
about working in a language other than your mother tongue
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bmizveWpKOk. I think language differences
can often get a little neglected in these discussions about culture.

The second is not so funny but picks up on the more subtle differences
in the way language gets used - a woman from the USA talks about her
experience of moving to Australia and misunderstanding the use of 'Hmm'
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nfVQteTExyM
The third, is a clip of Dan Fishel at Columbia taking a light-hearted
look at US culture for this year's international student intake. I asked
the course participants to make list of all the aspects of cultural
difference which got touched on and relate this to their own experience.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yDhXD25fmMo
The final one is a film clip (Japanese Story) in which a young
Australian woman is picking up an important Japanese visitor to her
company. I asked the group to try and identify the different assumptions
about polite behaviour on both sides.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8UPP9cTQ5Ps

Each clip is very short but got them engaged in the issues very quickly
and provided a platform for class discussion about their own experiences
as well as a launching point for a more systematic look at cross
cultural differences and Earley's notion of Cultural Intelligence.


Mark Fenton-O'Creevy, Open University Business School
Try Youtube.com and search for Star Trek, GungHo and others. You will
find a lot of clips on so many subjects. Create a wonderful day!
There i s a DVD video supplement for Charles Hill's Global Business
Textbook from McGraw-Hill. In that DVD there is a "Mustang Jeans" case;
about US vs Japanese business deals. Very interesting and insightful for
cross cultural communications. My MBA students like it and we always
have a very lively discussion after the show.

Let me support using Gung Ho – it’s a great movie for this purpose. I
also use Bend it Like Beckham and sometimes clips from various Star
Treks.

These resources are not on the net, but they are useful and your could
probably get them:
the movie "Black Gold" about Fair Trade coffee in Ethiopia shows a lot
about different ideological approachesdealing with coffee farmers in Ethiopia. In addition, Anne Lawrence has
written a fantastic case on Shell in Nigeria, which includes video clips
(not too good quality, but they give one a real idea of communicating
across cultural (national and corporate v. other societal institutions)
gaps. I believe you can get the dvd from her by communicating to her
directly (her email is atlawrence@aol.com).

I've been teaching CCM for few years and using a variety of video
resources
from various sources, though I don't think any substantial video piece
is
from the net. On the popular films end, you have Gung-Ho, which is quite
nice full-feature film from the 80s showing Japan-US differences. I used
a
few minutes from the beginning of the film, when the US manager presents
to
the Japanese board to illustrate communication differences. A film I
used as
a whole is Kick it like Beckham. In addition there would be several
clips
from textbook-bundled DVDs, such as the Japanese Smile School.


I have an International Management Programme for European, American,
Middle Eastern and Australian students and execs in Beijing. As part of
the self-study materials, I've collected more than 200 interviews,
documentaries and profiles related to Doing Business in China on my
YouTube channel.

There are quite a few items that address your purpose, however the
featured documentary "Brits Get Rich in China" is a perfect example of
cross-cultural management as it plays out for four British entrepreneurs
with starkly different approaches.

Go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/terencelaoshi

I incorporate PANGAE DAY meeting videos in my class; as they are very
current, lively, and entertaining. They enable students to see the world
from others' perspectives.

http://www.youtube.com/user/pangeaday

There's an Open University video "Management in Chinese Cultures" which
I highly recommend for this.
http://ffh.films.com/id/1558/Management_in_Chinese_Cultures.htm


A really good video, that requires some prep for the students on use of
time, space, and communication context, is





Title:
International business practices [videorecording] : hidden dimensions.

Other Author(s):
Hall, Edward Twitchell, 1914-



Intercultural Resource Corporation.

Variant Title:
Hidden dimensions



Hidden dimension in international business interaction






Physical Description:
Videorecording

Subject(s):
International business enterprises --Management.



Negotiation.



Intercultural communication.

Publisher:
Newtonville, Mass. : Intercultural Resource Corporation, c1993.

Summary:
Hall discusses three basic principles underlying culture - information,
space and time, and their influence on international business
negotiations.

Description:
1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS.

Notes:
Presenter, Edward T. Hall.

Selected short clips from movies such as “Black Rain” with Michael
Douglas and Andy Garcia, “Rising Sun’” with Sean Connery and Wesley
Snipes, and “Gung Ho” with Michael Keaton might be used for various
dimensions. The former two have profanity, which some might find
offensive. These contrast American and Japanese cultures. You might
also consider “A Year in Provence”, which contrasts English and French
cultures, in a general way.


If you're looking for general 2-4min long clips, how about:

Stargate - where the sociologist has to learn how to communicate with
another race entirely, and do so despite their fear of writing

Indiana Jones & Temple of Doom - where they are invited to eat a meal
involving Monkey's Brains and a mysterious soup with the Maharaja...


> I have used clips from "A Walk In the Clouds" for Mexican American
culture colliding with Anglo culture - the scene where the son returns
home from Berkeley for the annual grape harvest also depicts younger
generation/older generation issues of cultural assimilation>
>
> "Joy Luck Club" is great for Chinese/Chinese American cultubrings home her Anglo fiancé to her mother's house for the first time
and they all have supper together is great for this. The debrief needs
to address the Anglo's cultural frame and intentions for his actions,
not only his obliviousness to the Chinese cultural norms.
>
To get a good laugh from my students before I begun my discussion, I
used clip from the Office (the one Michael conducts cross cultural
training).


I sent a couple of suggestions earlier, but I don’t really use long
movies anymore. Students don’t seem to appreciate the 100 o 120 minute
movies. I rely more on shorter clips and my main source is CBS’s
newsmagazine 60 Minutes (There are some other programs too). Some of
the titles I have are: Out of India (2005); Imported from India (about
the Indian Institute of Technology’s graduates – 2003); The New French
Revolution Summer 2004, is about the Muslim’s population in France); Top
Ten % (Spring 2005, about the Texas’s college admissions rule); Echo
Boomers (good analysis of this generation – October 2004); Sir Howard
(about the British Sony CEO, who does not know the culture very well and
doesn’t speak the language either – January 2006 –A student gave me this
one); The Look (about Abercrombie & Fitch’s discrimination problems -
December 2003); Working 24/7 (about being connected and working longer
hors as a result of
new developments in IT – April 2006); The Millenials are Coming (The
challenge for business to incorporate members of this generation into
the process and making them productive – Nov 2007).

"The Gods Must Be Crazy" has several scenes that illustrate
cross-cultural differences. I use one where a bushman kills a goat, and
is subsequently imprisoned for it. He tries to explain to the policeman
that he is willing to share the meat with him, but the policeman doesn't
understand and takes the goat for evidence. The bushman thinks the
policeman is very rude and that he wants the meat all to himself. The
bushman jogs off to kill another goat, and the policeman, thinking the
bushman is running away, shoots the bushman in the leg. The clip
illustrates difficulties in cross-cultural interactions due to language
and norms.

I also use a clip from "Behind Enemy Lines" that illustrates cultural
convergence. Owen Wilson's character is in Bosnia, where he hitches a
ride with some Bosnian youth. One is wearing a t-shirt featuring a rap
musician, and he talks about all the American rap groups he likes and
imitates one of them.

If anyone is interested in either clip, I have posted them at
http://faculty.washington.edu/mdj3/gods.wmv and
http://faculty.washington.edu/mdj3/behind%20enemy%20lines.mpg. Thy are
both large files (49mb and 26mb, respectively).


• Harry Potter & The goblet of fire – the scene where
Hogwarts' students first meet and ridicule Beauxbatons and Durmstrangs.;

• James Bond – You only live twice – his reactions and
interactions with Japanese and Chinese culture. For example, you can see
his unease about marrying Mie Hama, and his unease about the whole
ceremony, but he manages quite well – simply by imitating others and
listening to all advice he could get.;
• Crash: won the best film academy award. It explains how
the USA is not a homogeneous culture.;

Lost in translation
Brave Heart
Flight of the Phoenix (the original, with Jimmy Steward and Richard
Attenborough)
Apollo 13
Dead Poets Society
Crimson Tide
The Bridge on the River Kwai
It's a Wonderful Life
Twelve O-Clock High
Elizabeth

A movie that might be to some extent illustrative of cultural
differences is The Spanish Apartment (USA) (L'auberge espagnole is the
original title). It is centered around a group of international students
in the Erasmus program who share a flat in Barcelona. There is a very
stereotypical scene showing a room shared by two men, an Italian and a
German. The half that belongs to the German is in tip-toe condition
whereas the Italian’s half looks like a combat zone. There are a few
more scenes In my classes I like to contrast Mexican culture with other cultures and
use a movie called "La ley de Herodes"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221344/ in the movie the exercise of power
and corruption are blatant and comic.
I have students analyze the impression management strategies used by
each of the performers and relate them to Hofstede's cultural
dimensions. I use the movie for a Power and Influence session on
cultural differences. The exercise of power in the movie has a high
power distance component.

There is another interesting approach when looking at cross-cultural
differences in films. Instead of looking at clips, why not compare whole
films where one film is a copy in another culture of an original film?

Several obvious examples stand out:
 Infernal Affairs
 Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven (and Tampopo and A
Bug’s Life)
 Ring
 Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars
 Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos) and Vanilla Sky
 La Cage aux Folles

The list is almost endless, especially when you consider less-tight
conversions such as adaptations of Shakespeare in different cultures.

This strikes me as an interesting avenue for research as the choices
(especially the changes) made by directors and producers inform us about
the different societies.

There is a documentary called "The Japanese Version" which depicts how
Japanese interpret American culture -- I especially use the scene in
which the American western and cowboy is seen through an entirely
different lens. It is available from Center for New American Media.
(www.cnam.com). They also have some wonderful videos on class
differences ("People Like Us") and on the vast array of American
cultures ("American Tongues"). In general their work has lots of good
cultural insights. Sim Sitkin


If you’d like a humorous look at it, I recommend “Gung Ho” with Michael
Keaton from the mid-1980’s.

I have used the film ‘Bend it like Beckham’ (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286499/ in my UG Cross Cultural Class (as a
basis for a short paper assignment). It depicts nicely multicultural
issues within the British society. Students seem to have responded well
to that. Black Rain (1989, by Ridley Scott) has some good scenes about
American – Japanese differences in the context of police work. And, if
you wan to go a bit back in history, the series Shogun (from 1980; I
recently bought the DVD set) has neat descriptions of European vs.
Japanese cultural differences; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080274/.

There a lot of good resources for cross-cultural differences. Here are
a few that deal with blatant cross-cultural differences. I tried to
pick some showing different times (past, present and future) and places:

• Local Hero
• The Namesake
• Anna and the King
• The Last Samurai
• Outsourced
• Many episodes from the Star Trek series and its offshoots
- "Star Trek" "Star Trek Next Generation" "Deep Space 9" "Babylon 5"
(the space station set up for cross-cultural/species interaction).
These usually depict crew members from different cultures (or species)
as well as encounters between the crew and inhabitants of different
worlds.
Then there are the more subtle approaches to culture and cross-cultural
differences:
• Upstairs, Downstairs (TV)
• The Sopranos (TV)
• Remains of the Day

A summary of videos, movies, and documentaries reflecting cross cultural
issues

Documentary
“Mondovino”-A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world's
different wine regions http://www.mondovinofilm.com/
"The Japanese Version" - It depicts how Japanese interpret American. It
is available from Center for New American Media www.cnam.com/. They also
have some wonderful videos on class differences ("People Like Us") and
on the vast array of American cultutheir work has lots of good cultural insights.

The other side of outsourcing (Thomas Friedman)

The year of the Yao


CBS’s newsmagazine 60 Minutes (There are some other programs too).
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?source=nav_video


“Out of India” (2005), Imported from India about the Indian Institute of
Technology’s graduates.

“The New French Revolution Summer” (2004), It is about the Muslim’s
population in France.

“Top Ten %” (Spring 2005), It is about the Texas’s college admissions
rule.

“Echo Boomers” (October 2004), Good analysis of this generation.

“Sir Howard” (January 2006), It is about the British Sony CEO, who does
not know the culture very well and doesn’t speak the language either.

“The Look” (December 2003), About `Abercrombie & Fitch’s` discrimination
problems.

“Working 24/7” (April 2006), It is about being connected and working
longer hors as a result of new developments in it.

“The Millenials are coming” (Nov 2007). The challenge for business to
incorporate members of this generation into the process and making them
productive.

The following are commercial training videos:

“At the heart of the Bull”- Cultural diversity:
“Making a good impression”
“Globally speaking: Skills & strategies for success in Asia”

Movies

“Gung Ho”- A movie with Michael Keaton and Japanese Business. Best
rating between the senders.

“Black Rain” (1989, by Ridley Scott) with Michael Douglas and Andy
Garcia, has some good scenes about American – Japanese differences in
the context of police work.

“Hotel Rwanda” - has some very powerful scenes as the hotel operator
tries to keep the hotel open to tourists despite the tragedies occurring
in the streets.

“The Interpreter” - with Nicole Kidman has all kinds of trust and
communication opportunities across not only cultures, but political
orientations.

“Erin Brokovich” -If you want to look at "social class" as a difference
starring Julia Roberts.

“GI Jane” -If you want to look at "gender".

“Good Company”- If you want to look at "age".

“Twister”, “The Perfect Storm”, “Raising Helen”- If you want to look at
work/family conflict.

“Ray”- There, as Ray's band meets more demanding markets Ray hires for
higher pay a more suave collaborator. His long time aide asks why is the
newcomer paid more than he is, illustrating a clash of pay cultures
within the USA. The more modern culture will pay as much as needed to
hire and retain the collaborator, the older- more African American one -
will privilege seniority.

“Rising Sun” with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, These contrast
American and Japanese cultures.

“A Year in Province”, which contrasts English and French cultures, in a
general way.

“Bend it like Beckham” (2002) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286499/.It
depicts nicely multicultural issues within the British society.

“Ring”
“Lost in translation”
“Local Hero”
“The Namesake”
“Anna and the King”
“Outsourced”
“Brave Heart”
”Flight of the Phoenix” (the original, with Jimmy Steward and Richard
Attenborough)
”Dead Poets Society”
”Crimson Tide”
”The Bridge on the River Kwai”
”It's a Wonderful Life”
”Twelve O-Clock High”
”Elizabeth”
”Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven” (and Tampopo and A
Bug's Life)
”Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars”

TV and Movie series.
“Shogun” (from 1980) has neat descriptions of European vs. Japanese
cultural differences; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080274/ .
“Star Trek”- series and its offshoots - "Star Trek" "Star Trek Next
Generation" "Deep Space 9" "Babylon 5" (the space station set up for
cross-cultural/species interaction). These usually depict crew members
from different cultures (or species) as well as encounters between the
crew and inhabitants of different worlds.

Another list of video resources
http://ciber.msu.edu/Research/Video_Library_Catalog.pdf









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