Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566567521 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 618 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent book for Hollywood history and today An excellent book that goes into depth about the hundreds of depictions of Arabs and Muslims in Hollywood film. Each listing has a brief synopsis of the movie and a relevant scene showing the trope. It's a good read, an easy read to follow, and evenhanded (it lists movies that have a positive depiction of Arabs or Muslims along with movie. This is a book to have. Buy it. Intelligent2022 Wow this book had me seated for days. And I could not put this book down it simply just gave answers to how this Hollywood culture had given Arabs and Islam a evil face. Long ago when going up, I always thought of why movies had made Arabs and Muslims look like they was all evil. But researching and surfing the net I came across this book. Daniel J. said Show Me the Money!. Fast delivery and exactly as advertised!
Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries, as well as for other libraries with collections dealing with racism or Arab culture. For more on Islamic culture, see "A Misundersood Faith," p. Ed. Offering primarily reviews of the 900 films he has seen or researched over 20 years, he documents a century of offensive stereotypes and shows how the image of the "dirty Arab" has reemerged over the last 30 years, even as other groups have more or less successfully fought to eliminate the use of racist stereotypes. 82-83. The appendixes include lists of the best and worst depictions of Arabs in popular films, alternate titles, a list of epithets thrown at Arabs in films, and a list of the fictional locations used in films. From Library Journal Shaheen (mass communication, Southern Illinois Univ.; Arab and Muslim Stereotypes in American Popular Culture) has written a meticulous, passionate, and very articulate description of the persisten
revised and updated editionA groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" ArabsAward-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.