<p><em>The concept of American exceptionalism in American cinema is a way for propagandists to instill certain values or doctrines in the audience. This is clearly depicted through the narrative and non-narrative aspects where each dialogue, characterization, setting and also the way the camera take a shot reflects an effort of exceptionalism that is implanted throughout the film. These efforts led to the practice of propaganda against Islam and Muslim. By using a descriptive analysis method described using binary opposition theory, this research reveals the existence of American exceptionalism indoctrination which has an impact on the emergence of anti-Islamic ideology. The existence of a propaganda technique that is reflected in the film, such as card stacking, creates a cinematic terror in the film about the depiction of Middle Eastern people, especially Muslims.</em></p>

The issues of minorities still become an interesting topic to be discussed since practically the laws sometimes cannot protect the rights of the minorities. Homosexuals are one of the minority groups in the United States struggling with homophobia. The existence of gay conversion therapy is a paradox in the multicultural country. This research is conducted to examine how the portrayal of homophobia in gay conversion therapy and how the paradox of multiculturalism depicted in Conley’s memoir entitled Boy Erased. The primary data of this research are the dialog and narration in the memoirpublished in 2016,which contains the irony behind the existence of gay conversion therapy. The secondary data are taken from articles and current news that relates to the issues. The post-nationalism approach, homophobia theory, and multiculturalism theory are used to analyze the data. The study found institutionalized homophobia at Love in Action (LIA) as the gay conversion therapy institution. The reasons behind the existence of gay conversion therapy are the paradox of toleration, lack of equal recognition, and the inability to provide positive accommodation for homosexuals. The existence of gay conversion therapy proved that the struggles of homosexuals in the United States still need to be overcome.

In recent years, literature is not merely about poetry, prose, novel, short story but also the movie. One of the exciting animation movies is Trolls, produced by DreamWorks Animation in 2016. Undoubtedly, movies are not always about entertainment but can persuasively create an ideology in the kids' minds. Gender stereotypes are a negative impact of ideology that exists all over the world. Two research questions are formulated; what are the stereotypes towards women in Trolls movie and what ideology the movie seems to promote. This research aims to reveal the traditional stereotype towards women in Trolls movies and make the audience aware of the ideology of gender stereotypes towards women. This research applies library research with the descriptive qualitative method. Since this research analyzes gender stereotypes towards women in the movie, binary opposition theory can see the movie's structure. The writer concludes that women’s traditional gender roles stereotypes still exist in this movie. The stereotypes over women through Poppy as the character can be seen as irrational, weak, and submissive. The researcher also can find the patriarchal ideology. The movie promotes the gender issue in this film that shows the man is superior to the woman