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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People 4th Edition
Author(s): Jack G. Shaheen (Author)
- Publisher: Interlink Books
- Publication Date: 28 Mar. 2015
- Edition: 4th
- Language: English
- Print length: 617 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781566567527
- ISBN-13: 9781566567527
Book Description
Countless movies have portrayed Arabs as loathsome lechers who terrorise, murder, and finally die in droves. In ‘Reel Bad Arabs’ film scholar Jack Shaheen exposes in fascinating detail this appalling side of the Hollywood ‘dream’ machine. His 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Caricatured villains are as vital to the movie business as car chases and shoot-outs. But the spotlight of derision shifts. When blacks were no longer shiftless jokes, the Asians no longer the Yellow Peril, and good Indians no longer had to be dead Indians, Arabs became the all-purpose bad-guys. Countless movies have portrayed them as loathsome lechers who terrorize, murder, and finally die in droves. In ‘Reel Bad Arabs’ scholar Jack Shaheen exposes in appalling detail this nightmare side of the Hollywood dream machine. –Christopher Dickey, Middle East Editor for Newsweek Magazine
About the Author
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’.
