The research aims to expose how The Big Sick film represents Pakistani American
and what the film-maker wants to convey through the representation. To achieve
the objective, the researcher examines how Pakistani American is represented
through the characters, family, arranged marriage, and religion by using theory of
representation from Stuart Hall, and reveals the film-maker’s intention in this film
through the concept of ideology. By applying the qualitative method, the research
discovers that The Big Sick film represents Pakistani American characters who are
lustful, submissive, strict, and narrow-minded. Then Pakistani American family is
described as an exclusive institution and a normative unit. Through the tradition of
arranged marriage, they are illustrated as people who preserve Pakistani purity and
maintain an intergroup social relationship. From their religion, they are portrayed
as people who treat Islam as a sacred thing and a given thing. All of these depictions
perpetuate the stereotype of Pakistani American. Nevertheless, there is an implicit
idea contained through the ideology of Kumail Nanjiani as a Pakistani American
film-maker. Through the characters in this film, he does not only reinforce the
stereotypes of Pakistani American, but he also tries to counter them. As a result,
this film wants to deliver that not all of Pakistani Americans have stereotypical
characteristics.

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