Social, political and cultural

The social side of film can show the behaviour of a group of individuals react to a situation, such as the Asian community in the British society in Yasmin. After 9/11 the all Pakistani group all looked upon as all being a terrorist.

The political deals with in a country maybe the film pays homage to a great prime minster/ president. An example of this would be the film The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep, this deal with the reign of Margret Thatcher in Britain government.

Cultural deals with the culture of a certain country like the film four lions, it does have a comic element to the act of terrorism, it deal with the culture of extremist Pakistani residents and their beliefs in their culture.

Gender issues

This deal with the thought that one sex is better than the other or that a certain profession is gender specific, a good example of this is Bend it like Beckham. A young girl is trying to make into professional football, when it is predominantly Male football

Ethnicity

Is the state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition, examples could include early Indiana jones films, white explorer hero over exotic  Arab characters, while Arab American and other spectators in the United States rarely saw commercial releases of films by Arab filmmakers such as the Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.