Reel bad Arabs

By Jack G. Shaheen

Subjects: Motion pictures, history, Reference, Stereotypes (social psychology), Arabs in motion pictures, Cinéma, Stereotyp <Motiv>, Xenophobia in motion pictures, Motion pictures, Histoire, PERFORMING ARTS, Araberbild, Arabes au cinéma, Film, Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures, History, Hollywood Productions (Firm)

Description: "In this comprehensive study of over one thousand films, award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen documents the tendency to portray Muslim Arabs as Public Enemy #1 - brutal, heartless, uncivilized "Others" bent on terrorizing civilized Westerners. He examines how and why such a stereotype has grown and spread in the film Industry and what should be done to change Hollywood's defamation of Arabs."--Page 4 of cover.