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Reel Bad Arabs

2012-12-31 Performing Arts
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Release : 2012-12-31
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Book Synopsis Reel Bad Arabs by : Jack G. Shaheen

Download or read book Reel Bad Arabs written by Jack G. Shaheen. This book was released on 2012-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Reel Bad Arabs

2009 Performing Arts
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Release : 2009
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Reel Bad Arabs written by Jack G. Shaheen. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secondary edition statement from table of contents.

Guilty

2012-12-28 Performing Arts
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Release : 2012-12-28
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Guilty by : Jack G. Shaheen

Download or read book Guilty written by Jack G. Shaheen. This book was released on 2012-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nothing will be the same again.” Americans scarred by the experience of 9/11 often express this sentiment. But what remains the same, argues Jack Shaheen, is Hollywood’s stereotyping of Arabs. In his new book about films made after 9/11, Shaheen finds that nearly all of Hollywood’s post-9/11 films legitimize a view of Arabs as stereotyped villains and the use of Arabs and Muslims as shorthand for the “Enemy” or “Other.” Along with an examination of a hundred recent movies, Shaheen addresses the cultural issues at play since 9/11: the government’s public relations campaigns to win “hearts and minds” and the impact of 9/11 on citizens and on the imagination. He suggests that winning the “war on terror” would take shattering the centuries-old stereotypes of Arabs, and frames the solutions needed to begin to tackle the problem and to change the industry and culture at large.

The TV Arab

1984 Performing Arts
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Release : 1984
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis The TV Arab by : Jack G. Shaheen

Download or read book The TV Arab written by Jack G. Shaheen. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Shaheen, studying over 100 different popular entertainment programs, cartoons and major documentaries telecast on network, independent and public channels, totaling nearly 200 episodes that relate to Arabs, has thrown new and revealing light on the stereotypes of people from the Middle East.

Arabs and Muslims in the Media

2012-08-20 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012-08-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Arabs and Muslims in the Media by : Evelyn Alsultany

Download or read book Arabs and Muslims in the Media written by Evelyn Alsultany. This book was released on 2012-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. Arabs and Muslims in the Media examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of “the enemy” during the War on Terror. Evelyn Alsultany explains that a new standard in racial and cultural representations emerged out of the multicultural movement of the 1990s that involves balancing a negative representation with a positive one, what she refers to as “simplified complex representations.” This has meant that if the storyline of a TV drama or film represents an Arab or Muslim as a terrorist, then the storyline also includes a “positive” representation of an Arab, Muslim, Arab American, or Muslim American to offset the potential stereotype. Analyzing how TV dramas such as The Practice, 24, Law and Order, NYPD Blue, and Sleeper Cell, news-reporting, and non-profit advertising have represented Arabs, Muslims, Arab Americans, and Muslim Americans during the War on Terror, this book demonstrates how more diverse representations do not in themselves solve the problem of racial stereotyping and how even seemingly positive images can produce meanings that can justify exclusion and inequality.

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