Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (part 3)

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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[kingneddy]

divide & conquer.thats how they keep us fighting amongst ourselves so we never look at the new world order scum who are the real enemy.

[FREEW0RLD2012]

I'm glad there are no comments and the ratings are low for this series.Maybe this way it will stay under YouTube's wire and more people can see the TRUTH of how Hollywood vilifies Arabs and has for decades.

[costaalicerica]

and the translation in Rules of Engagement has nothing to do with what is actually being said in Arabic.

[costaalicerica]

@MoonsSnow same thing with Arabs in general, most Arabs are good, its just a minority that is actually correctly portrayed by these movies.

[costaalicerica]

I'm sorry but this documentary has a point. I mean in every culture, religion, race and everything (even Americans) there are good people and bad people who commit crimes and acts against humanity, that doesn't give anyone a right to dehumanise a race or a group of people this much. I personally have never seen an Arabic movie or TV show that vilifies or dehumanizes Westerners....

[6am07]

@MoonsSnow

yes because jews and muslims were lived togather in peace until 1948 when isreal destroyed the good things and built the hatred , intolerance , murders , and show the world that islam is terrorist instead of saying islam were respected jews shame on hollywood

[cripplehawk]

DOD was not involved with Iron Eagle. The Israeli Goverment was however (They leased some of their F-16s and Kfir C-7s planes (which were portrayed as "migs)" to the production.

[poodtang1]

3:49 Simple answer the Jews would never allow it. Critisize Jews at your own risk.

[1BloodyRoar1]

what kind of shit movie is rules of engagement? 

[CorruptionOverdrive]

There is no 'side'...there is never any 'side'... just individual actions that determine the outcome of what we collectively experience as 'reality'.

[DenizliCalcio]

FUCK HOLLYWOOD!

[murderousbastard83]

Damn it! I hate when the audio is off!