Reel Bad Arabs

Author : Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781623710064

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Reel Bad Arabs by Jack G. Shaheen Pdf

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 : Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher : Olive Branch Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124175253

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Reel Bad Arabs by Jack G. Shaheen Pdf

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Author : Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1566563887

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Reel Bad Arabs by Jack G. Shaheen Pdf

How hollywood has portrayed Muslin Arabs as evil.

Author : Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781623710200

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Guilty by Jack G. Shaheen Pdf

“Nothing will be the same again.” Americans scarred by the experience of 9/11 often express this sentiment. But what remains the same, argues Jack Shaheen, is Hollywood’s stereotyping of Arabs. In his new book about films made after 9/11, Shaheen finds that nearly all of Hollywood’s post-9/11 films legitimize a view of Arabs as stereotyped villains and the use of Arabs and Muslims as shorthand for the “Enemy” or “Other.” Along with an examination of a hundred recent movies, Shaheen addresses the cultural issues at play since 9/11: the government’s public relations campaigns to win “hearts and minds” and the impact of 9/11 on citizens and on the imagination. He suggests that winning the “war on terror” would take shattering the centuries-old stereotypes of Arabs, and frames the solutions needed to begin to tackle the problem and to change the industry and culture at large.

Author : Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0879723092

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The TV Arab by Jack G. Shaheen Pdf

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 : Evelyn Alsultany
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814707319

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Arabs and Muslims in the Media by Evelyn Alsultany Pdf

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 : 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 : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Arabs
ISBN : 0615699693

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A IS for ARAB Stereotypes in U. S. Popular Culture by Ella Shohat,Ali Mirsepassi,Amita Manghnani,Jack G. Shaheen,Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives,John Kuo Wei Tchen Pdf

Author : Darcy Zabel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820481114

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Arabs in the Americas by Darcy Zabel Pdf

Offering more than just an introduction or a celebration of the Arab American presence in the Americas, the essays in this book aim at expanding readers' understanding of what it means to be part of the Arab diaspora and to live in the Americas.

Author : Kerem Bayraktaroğlu
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476633633

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The Muslim World in Post-9/11 American Cinema by Kerem Bayraktaroğlu Pdf

Focusing on the decade following 9/11, this critical analysis examines the various portrayals of Muslims in American cinema. Comparison of pre- and post-9/11 films indicates a stereotype shift, influenced by factors other than just politics. The evolving definitions of male, female and child characters and of setting and landscape are described. The rise of the formidable American female character who dominates the weak Muslim male emerges as a common theme.

Author : Charles Ramírez Berg
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292783003

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Latino Images in Film by Charles Ramírez Berg Pdf

The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady—these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of such images in U.S. popular culture. He also explores how Latino actors and filmmakers have actively subverted and resisted such stereotyping. In the first part of the book, Berg sets forth his theory of stereotyping, defines the classic stereotypes, and investigates how actors such as Raúl Julia, Rosie Pérez, José Ferrer, Lupe Vélez, and Gilbert Roland have subverted stereotypical roles. In the second part, he analyzes Hollywood's portrayal of Latinos in three genres: social problem films, John Ford westerns, and science fiction films. In the concluding section, Berg looks at Latino self-representation and anti-stereotyping in Mexican American border documentaries and in the feature films of Robert Rodríguez. He also presents an exclusive interview in which Rodríguez talks about his entire career, from Bedhead to Spy Kids, and comments on the role of a Latino filmmaker in Hollywood and how he tries to subvert the system.

Author : Waleed F. Mahdi
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815636717

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Arab Americans in Film by Waleed F. Mahdi Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015047705424

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Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture by Jack G. Shaheen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438402901

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 8 by Anonim Pdf

This volume covers the history of the Muslim community and the biography of Muḥammad in the middle Medinan years. It begins with the unsuccessful last Meccan attack on Medina, known as the battle of the Trench. Events following this battle show the gradual collapse of Meccan resistance to Islam. The next year, when Muḥammad set out on pilgrimage to Mecca, the Meccans at first blocked the road, but eventually a ten-year truce was negotiated at al-Ḥudaybiyah, with Muḥammad agreeing to postpone his pilgrimage until the following year. The Treaty of al-Ḥudaybiyah was followed by a series of Muslim expeditions, climaxing in the important conquest of Khaybar. In the following year Muḥammad made the so-called Pilgrimage of Fulfillment unopposed. Al-Ṭabarī's account emphasizes Islam's expanding geographical horizon during this period. Soon after the Treaty of al-Hudaybiyah, Muḥammad is said to have sent letters to six foreign rulers inviting them to become Muslims. Another example of this expanding horizon was the unsuccessful expedition to Mu'tah in Jordan. Shortly afterward the Treaty of al-Ḥudaybiyah broke down, and Muḥammad marched on Mecca. The Meccans capitulated, and Muḥammad entered the city on his own terms. He treated the city leniently, and most of the Meccan oligarchy swore allegiance to him as Muslims. Two events in the personal life of Muḥammad during this period caused controversy in the community. Muḥammad fell in love with and married Zaynab bint. Jaḥsh, the divorced wife of his adopted son Zayd. Because of Muḥammad's scruples, the marriage took place only after a Qur'anic revelation permitting believers to marry the divorced wives of their adopted sons. In the Affair of the Lie, accusations against Muḥammad's young wife ʿĀʾishah were exploited by various factions in the community and in Muḥammad's household. In the end, a Qur'anic revelation proclaimed ʿĀʾishah's innocence and the culpability of the rumormongers. This volume of al-Ṭabarī's History records the collapse of Meccan resistance to Islam, the triumphant return of Muḥammad to his native city, the conversion to Islam of the Meccan oligarchy, and the community's successful weathering of a number of potentially embarrassing events in Muḥammad's private life.

Author : Rashid Razaq,Hassan Blasim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783196524

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The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes by Rashid Razaq,Hassan Blasim Pdf

Based on the short story by Hassan Blasim. Salim, an Iraqi refugee, takes on a new identity In London after fleeing persecution in Baghdad. He is picked up, and marries a wealthy older woman, who enthusiastically coaches him in the bedroom for his forthcoming citizenship test. But Carlos Fuentes finds that knowing the names of all six of Henry VIII’s wives can neither satisfy his new wife nor turn him into a “Britishman”. The nightmare of the violence of his past catches up with him, and suddenly he is at the airport, accompanied by a G4 security guard, waiting for a plane to take him back to Iraq.

Author : Mehal Krayem
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Arab Australian men in motion pictures
ISBN : 0522872298

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ISS 23 Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception by Mehal Krayem Pdf

Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception explores recent crime drama film and television depictions of Arab and Muslim men in Australia. It examines the representation of three Australian productions- East West 101, The Combinationand Cedar Boys. Since 2007 Australia has seen a notable increase in the inclusion of Arab and Muslim male characters in various serials and films, but what do these inclusions mean for the place of Arab and Muslim men in Australia today?This book seeks to understand how these representations are constructed and whether they are as progressive and edgy as producers and media responses would suggest. This book explores the extent to which cultural productions such as East West 101, The Combinationand Cedar Boysopen up a space for new understandings of the place of Arab and Muslim Australians in contemporary Australia. Importantly it considers the role of the Special Broadcasting Service in the plight of anti-racism.