Reel bad Arabs
Subtitle: how Hollywood vilifies a people
By: Jack G. Shaheen ; foreword by William Greider.
Publisher: Olive Branch Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
Subjects: Arabs in motion pictures
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-545) and index.