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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack G. Shaheen PDF

By Jack G. Shaheen

ISBN-10: 1566567521

ISBN-13: 9781566567527

A groundbreaking booklet that dissects a slanderous historical past relationship from cinema's earliest days to modern Hollywood blockbusters that characteristic machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" Arabs

Award-winning movie authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that in basic terms local american citizens were extra relentlessly smeared at the silver monitor, painstakingly makes his case that "Arab" has remained Hollywood's shameless shorthand for "bad guy," lengthy after the motion picture has shifted its portrayal of different minority teams. during this accomplished examine of over 1000 movies, prepared alphabetically in such chapters as "Villains," "Sheikhs," "Cameos," and "Cliffhangers," Shaheen files the tendency to painting Muslim Arabs as Public Enemy #1-brutal, heartless, uncivilized Others bent on terrorizing civilized Westerners.

Shaheen examines how and why this type of stereotype has grown and unfold within the movie and what could be performed to alter Hollywood's defamation of Arabs.

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