Reel bad Arabs : how Hollywood vilifies a people / Jack G. Shaheen.
In this comprehensive study of nearly one thousand films, 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...
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| Hauptverfasser: | Shaheen, Jack G. |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York [u.a.] : Olive Branch Press, 2001. |
| Ausgabe: | 1. publ |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this comprehensive study of nearly one thousand films, 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | VIII, 574 S. |
| ISBN: | 1566563887 |
