Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

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Olive Branch Press, 2001 - Performing Arts - 574 pages
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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About the author (2001)

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 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.

Bibliographic information

TitleReel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Film studies : Middle East
AuthorJack G. Shaheen
Editionillustrated
PublisherOlive Branch Press, 2001
ISBN1566563887, 9781566563888
Length574 pages
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Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Psychology / General
Psychology / Social Psychology
  
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