Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (part 2)

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People . This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--a long the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today. Shaheen shows how the persistence of these images over time has served to naturalize prejudicial attitudes toward Arabs and Arab culture, in the process reinforcing a narrow view of individual Arabs and the effects of specific US domestic and internationl policies on their lives. By inspiring critical thinking about the social, political, and basic human consequences of leaving these Hollywood caricatures unexamined, the film challenges viewers to recognize the urgent need for counter-narratives that do justice to the diversity and humanity of Arab people and the reality and richness of Arab history and culture. Director: Sut Jhally Biographical Summary: Dr. Jack Shaheen, Professor Emeritus of Mass Communication at Southern Illinois University, is a leading scholar of Arab representations in US popular culture. Shaheen is the author of the groundbreaking study The TV Arab and, most recently, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People, the most comprehensive review of Arab screen images ever published. Analyzing over 900 Hollywood films made from 1896 to 2004, Dr. Shaheen exposes American cinema's systematic and pervasive degradation and dehumanization of Arabs. Articles: "Jack Shaheen continues to be a piercing laser of fairness and sanity in pointing out Hollywood's ongoing egregious smearing of Arabs." Howard Rosenberg | Los Angeles Times TV Critic

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[ValveBurst2]

I agree with this video, but you must remember that this sort of thing has happend to many other types of people : blacks during the slave trade way back when, the germans during ww1 and espesially ww2, also the japanese during ww2 (vietnamese during the vietnam war, north koreans during the korean war), and the russians during th cold war. its all propaganda by the elite to sell there views in time of war so that the stupid can support them... am i right ?

[sha6ar6oon]

i hate disney

[ghaidouda]

@PinHeadzblackson i'm shocked by your racism? how many arab people do you know!!!! arabs like all people there is a good and bad persons but stop racism and see fox channe!

[123456dude]

@PinHeadzBlackson how many Arabs have you met?

[PinHeadzBlackson]

Face it, Arabs aren't very nice people. C'mon, have you ever met a decent arab?

[FirstPistolSammy]

This isn't it....

Whats the movie that hit not only middle eastern but asian black and latino sterotype and after each segment give like facts about it

[nnasser007]

I WANT TO SEE YOU GAY

[99712255h]

Do not believe them. This reflects the invasion of intellectual and moral Arabs

[Qwerty2OG]

What a load of BS.

Just from the top of my head. James Bond; The Spy Who Loved Me & The Living Daylights where 007 teams up with the Mujahedin. Or Rambo 3 where he joins the Afghan resistance against the Russians.

This guy is complainnig about stereotyping. However all stereotypes are based on a general truth. It doesn't apply nescaserrely to the individual. it's an easy way to let people identify large groups.

And why is he...

[Qwerty2OG]

And why is he only whining about the negative stereotypes concerning Arabs? You don't hear him about Russians, all being communists or atheletes on steroids. Or what about the stereotype about western people, most businessmen and politicians are corrupt?

That arabs are often portrayed as terrorists isn't that surprising. Look at the major bombings since the 1980s. The only ones i can think of not being performed by Arabs ( and muslim extremists; unfortunately lots of people don't know the …