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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (Paperback)

by Jack G. Shaheen (Author)
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  • Paperback: 574 pages
  • Publisher: Roundhouse Publishing (15 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1566563887
  • ISBN-13: 978-1566563888
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.7 x 4.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 417,103 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Countless movies have portrayed Arabs as loathsome lechers who terrorise, murder, and finally die in drovesl In Reel Bad Arabs film scholar Jack Shaheen exposes in fascinating detail this appalling side of the Hollywood 'dream' machine. This stupendous study dissects this slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature Bedouin bandits, sinister sheikhs, machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" Arabs. He 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Anti-Arab racism in films dissected and challenged, 12 Sep 2003
By Mr. Patrick A. Harrington "doublethink" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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Jack Shaheen (Professor Emeritus of Mass Communications at Southern Illinois University) has produced an exhaustive study of anti-Arab bias in films from the silent films of the early 1900s to the present.

It's a depressing account. Arabs are treated as sub-humans. They are killed like pigeons in films like 'Rules of Engagement' and 'True Lies'. Few have spoken out against this blatant racism.
It has been allowed to become part of popular culture virtually unchallenged.

If you substituted any other racial group (with the possible exception of the North Koreans!) these slurs would create an uproar.

Jack Shaheen acted as a consultant on the film 'Three Kings' which was unusual in giving a more sensitive and complex depiction of Arabs. Since 9/11 and the war against and occupation of Iraq, however, the Movie industry has reverted to type.

All this has a political effect. One can only imagine how it colours perception of the war in Iraq and the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

A timely work.

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