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Author : Ella Shohat,Ali Mirsepassi,Amita Manghnani,Jack G. Shaheen,Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives,John Kuo Wei Tchen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Arabs
ISBN : 0615699693
Author : Ella Shohat,Ali Mirsepassi,Amita Manghnani,Jack G. Shaheen,Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives,John Kuo Wei Tchen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Arabs
ISBN : 0615699693
Author : Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015047705424
Author : Waleed F. Mahdi
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780815654964
Selected for Arab America's Best Arab American Books of 2020 list. It comes as little surprise that Hollywood films have traditionally stereotyped Arab Americans, but how are Arab Americans portrayed in Arab films, and just as importantly, how are they portrayed in the works of Arab American filmmakers themselves? In this innovative volume, Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of three cinemas, yielding rich insights on the layers of representation and the ways in which those representations are challenged and disrupted. Hollywood films have fostered reductive imagery of Arab Americans since the 1970s as either a national security threat or a foreign policy concern, while Egyptian filmmakers have used polarizing images of Arab Americans since the 1990s to convey their nationalist critiques of the United States. Both portrayals are rooted in anxieties around globalization, migration, and US-Arab geopolitics. In contrast, Arab American cinema provides a more complex, realistic, and fluid representation of Arab American citizenship and the nuances of a transnational identity. Exploring a wide variety of films from each cinematic site, Mahdi traces the competing narratives of Arab American belonging—how and why they vary, and what’s at stake in their circulation.
Author : Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781623710064
A groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema’s earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" Arabs Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver screen, painstakingly makes his case that "Arab" has remained Hollywood’s shameless shorthand for "bad guy," long after the movie industry has shifted its portrayal of other minority groups. In this comprehensive study of over one thousand films, arranged alphabetically in such chapters as "Villains," "Sheikhs," "Cameos," and "Cliffhangers," 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.
Author : Waleed F. Mahdi
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815636717
It comes as little surprise that Hollywood films have traditionally stereotyped Arab Americans, but how are Arab Americans portrayed in Arab films, and just as importantly, how are they portrayed in the works of Arab American filmmakers themselves? In this innovative volume, Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of three cinemas, yielding rich insights on the layers of representation and the ways in which those representations are challenged and disrupted. Hollywood films have fostered reductive imagery of Arab Americans since the 1970s as either a national security threat or a foreign policy concern, while Egyptian filmmakers have used polarizing images of Arab Americans since the 1990s to convey their nationalist critiques of the United States. Both portrayals are rooted in anxieties around globalization, migration, and US-Arab geopolitics. In contrast, Arab American cinema provides a more complex, realistic, and fluid representation of Arab American citizenship and the nuances of a transnational identity. Exploring a wide variety of films from each cinematic site, Mahdi traces the competing narratives of Arab American belonging—how and why they vary, and what’s at stake in their circulation.
Author : Evelyn Alsultany
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814707319
After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. Arabs and Muslims in the Media examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of “the enemy” during the War on Terror. Evelyn Alsultany explains that a new standard in racial and cultural representations emerged out of the multicultural movement of the 1990s that involves balancing a negative representation with a positive one, what she refers to as “simplified complex representations.” This has meant that if the storyline of a TV drama or film represents an Arab or Muslim as a terrorist, then the storyline also includes a “positive” representation of an Arab, Muslim, Arab American, or Muslim American to offset the potential stereotype. Analyzing how TV dramas such as The Practice, 24, Law and Order, NYPD Blue, and Sleeper Cell, news-reporting, and non-profit advertising have represented Arabs, Muslims, Arab Americans, and Muslim Americans during the War on Terror, this book demonstrates how more diverse representations do not in themselves solve the problem of racial stereotyping and how even seemingly positive images can produce meanings that can justify exclusion and inequality.
Author : Janice J. Terry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011378828
Author : Walid El Hamamsy,Mounira Soliman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415509725
This book explores the current historical moment through works of popular culture produced in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa region, Turkey, and Iran. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and other issues in film, cartoons, talk shows, music, dance, blogs, graphic novels, fiction, fashion, and advertisements.
Author : Douglas Little
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807877611
Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium. After documenting the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture, Little examines oil, Israel, and other aspects of U.S. policy. He concludes that a peculiar blend of arrogance and ignorance has led American officials to overestimate their ability to shape events in the Middle East from 1945 through the present day, and that it has been a driving force behind the Iraq war. For this updated third edition, Little covers events through 2007, including a new chapter on the Bush Doctrine, demonstrating that in many important ways, George W. Bush's Middle Eastern policies mark a sharp break with the past.
Author : Joanna Kadi
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0896084892
Thoughtful and critical, this memorable collection of essays, poems, and recipes by over forty Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminists honors the courage and spirit of Arab women -- past, present, and future. Book jacket.
Author : Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0879723092
Dr. Shaheen, studying over 100 different popular entertainment programs, cartoons and major documentaries telecast on network, independent and public channels, totaling nearly 200 episodes that relate to Arabs, has thrown new and revealing light on the stereotypes of people from the Middle East.
Author : Ernest Nasseph McCarus
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 047210439X
Looks at all aspects--political, religious, and social--of the Arab-American experience.
Author : Anne R. Richards,Iraj Omidvar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313379635
Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam. Unfortunately, American mass media representations of Muslims—whether in news or entertainment—are typically negative and one-dimensional. As a result, Muslims are frequently viewed negatively by those with minimal knowledge of Islam in America. This accessible two-volume work will help readers to construct an accurate framework for understanding the presence and depictions of Muslims in American society. These volumes discuss a uniquely broad array of key topics in American popular culture, including jihad and jihadis; the hejab, veil, and burka; Islamophobia; Oriental despots; Arabs; Muslims in the media; and mosque burnings. Muslims and American Popular Culture offers more than 40 chapters that serve to debunk the overwhelmingly negative associations of Islam in American popular culture and illustrate the tremendous contributions of Muslims to the United States across an extended historical period.
Author : Evelyn Alsultany,Ella Habiba Shohat
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472069446
Perceptions of the Middle East in conflicting discourses from North America, South America, and Europe