Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
by Jack G. Shaheen
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Performing Arts. Politics. Nonfiction. 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Jack George Shaheen Jr. was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 21, 1935. He received a bachelor's degree in theater from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, a master's degree from Pennsylvania State University, and a doctorate in mass communications from the University of Missouri in Columbia. He was a journalism professor at Southern show more Illinois University in Edwardsville. He worked hard to shatter demeaning stereotypes of Arabs in popular culture. He wrote several books including The TV Arab, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People, and Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11. He consulted on the movies Three Kings and Syriana. He died of cancer on July 9, 2017 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 791.43 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures
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- PN1995.9 .A68 .S54 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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