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

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

A groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters...
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Author: Jack G. Shaheen
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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Shaheen, Jack G.

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

BD$52.65

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

BD$52.65
Author: Jack G. Shaheen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A 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" Arabs 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.

Author: Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher: Olive Branch Press
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781566567527

About the Author
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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