Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

http://www.ReelBadArabs.com

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"--along 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

Category:

News & Politics

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[NaRuToLeGnD1414]

74 Jews !

[whole2th]

This vilification of Arabs will change overnight.

Open Pandora's box here-->

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It wasn't muslims who did 9/11.

[shabsog1982]

jews and arabs must disappears bec. jews can't stop the Arrogance and arabs cant stop the stupidity

[anti0evil]

jews are bad people

[seedo201]

@bloggulator god bless you. and they are cowrdly using the normal american people to put them fight their wars and american economy suffer for their plans

[TheMm440]

Ohh but Americans love the OIL

[AprilFoster10]

@Grace7189 Not all of us are. Some of us do realize that there is a world outside of our borders, and that it's far more complicated than the media portrays to us. I'm sorry if you've had negative interactions with Americans in the past. Just know that some of us are working and hoping for a better, more enlightened world.

[siccmadegames]

@egyptiansareblack26

Wow such eloquent intelligence.

THIS VIDEO HAS MUCH MORE VIEWS THAN JEW-TUBE IS CLAIMING.

AND SADLY, IT IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF THE CAMPAIGN OF ANTI-ISLAM PROPANGANDA THE MEDIA ENGAGES IN

[egyptiansareblack26]

The word ARRABBIATO mean's angry in italian, and is derived from the word ARAB. In hebrew ARAB mean's ambush, So arabs are ANGRY AMBUSHERS. It's the truth.

[bloggulator]

The enemies of the Arabic peoples and race (and Muslim faith) own Hollywood. It is 100% logical to expect the use of that powerful platform to vilify and demonize them.

Likewise the US corporate media: its hardly a wonder that 9/11 was such an easy sell for the Israeli (hardline Zionist) neoconservative movement which packed the former Bush Administration, when a majority of the US public are indoctrinated into the 4th grade notion that "all Arabs are terrorists and all terrorists are Arabs".

[Grace7189]

Americans are foolish