“Film Viewing Across Cultures” is an ongoing research project sponsored by the USC School of Cinema-Television and the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The project brings together twelve USC students, from a wide variety of majors and backgrounds, to view and discuss the relationship of films and culture.  Participating students were born in the US, Egypt, Pakistan, Kuwait and South Africa, where half are Muslim and half are non-Muslim. The goal is to explore two questions: How do films produce and also critique national identity? and How does the experience of studying films cross-culturally deepen understanding? Six films, three American and three Egyptian, were chosen for this project in an effort to explore how film interpretation shapes the perception of American and Arab cultures. From the Series:USC Presents...