Reel Bad Arabs by Jack G Shaheen
Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver screen, painstakingly makes his case that Arab has remained Hollywood's shameless shorthand for bad guy, long after the movie industry has shifted its portrayal of other minority groups. In this comprehensive study of over one thousand films, arranged alphabetically in such chapters as Villains, Sheikhs, Cameos, and Cliffhangers, Shaheen documents the tendency to portray Muslim Arabs as Public Enemy #1-brutal, heartless, uncivilized Others bent on terrorizing civilized Westerners.Shaheen examines how and why such a stereotype has grown and spread in the film industry and what may be done to change Hollywood's defamation of Arabs.
Shaheen, Jack G.: - Jack G. Shaheen, a former CBS News consultant on Middle East affairs, is the world's foremost authority on media images of Arabs and Muslims. He is the author of Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11, Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture, Nuclear War Films, and the award-winning TV Arab.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781566563888 |
| ISBN 10 | 1566563887 |
| Title | Reel Bad Arabs |
| Author | Jack G Shaheen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Roundhouse Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 584 |
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