Reel Bad Arabs- How Hollywood Vilifies a People (part 1).mp4

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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[lolmercier]

So true, for about 50..60 years, the elite make propaganda against the arabs, mostly the Muslims. Almost every weeks i hear somebody speaking against Muslims, i ask them if they know any Muslims, and they don't, so i ask them why do you hate them, and they answer that they are terrorists and trouble makers. Sheeple are brainwashed by the elite propaganda, controlling the mass media and Hollywood, the elite planed a long time ago a third world war against the Muslims. Study Abert Pike.

[khaadimone]

@lolmercier

Excellent comment! This is true everywhere. It sickens me to admit that this crude sheeple mentality affects the majority of my own family members (NOT my immediate family - thank God!). When I try to show them or answer their ridiculous comments they switch off and change topic or just tell me blatantly that they're not prepared to discuss it further! God gave us brains - I wish everyone would learn to respect theirs and get thinking and investigating the truth. Peace!

[GodaiYusaku1494]

My two cents. A fair number of things they use are things that I remember being reported on the news in the 70's and 80's but since Hollywood tends to use "Arabland" ie made up name or not say where it is. All these things blur together like they happen in all Arab countries. Not fair but I suspect more lazyness than any organized plan. I see the same sort of thing happen in universities this is called poor research. No master plan in it.

Godai

[Obasiliasfilosofos]

Who runs Hollywood? The Zionists

[NajibMekki]

@mackjeez I'm nobody's fool as I DON'T live in past!I just spoke about those Western genocides because I wanted to make the point that people should check their own backyard!I am a peaceful citizen of the world!Though I am an Arab Muslim,I am nevertheless white myself so don't worry about me blaming white people!My own father is a blond and Swede looking gentleman.Yes I know about the N.W.O which is run by the Bilderberg Group,the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.PEACE

[mackjeez]

@NajibMekki

I don't deny that European settlers had slaves etc.. Like I said earlier I'm not American and neither am I from the "West", so you're just arguing for nothing. My entire family was massacred during WWII by ethnic Turks in Smyrna(modern day Izmir/Turkey). I support your cause but if you live in the past you're a fool, read up on NWO and you'll see that these "white" people don't care about ethnicity and target everyone equally.

[NajibMekki]

@mackjeez Do you also deny that European Settlers decimated MILLIONS of Blacks and Native Indians in both of the Americas,causing many entire Native tribes to be extinct like the Arawak?Do you deny that the largest butcheries in mankind's history were WWI and especially WWII?Weren't they BOTH caused and perpetrated by the WEST?Do you deny that the greatest massacre of all times on record,namely the Nazi Holocaust was committed by the MODERN WEST?U.S Depleted Uranium is ravaging Iraqi civilians

[NajibMekki]

@mackjeez Do you deny the genocides, the chemical carpet bombings, the mass rapes and imprisonment by MODERN Western Colonizers which lasted until only a couple decades ago?Such as the Italians in Libya,French AND Spanish in Morocco, French in Syria and ALGERIA(over 2 million civilian deaths between 1954-62,the Ottomans pale in comparison!),British in Yemen,Egypt,Iraq etc.No one ever LEGISLATED racist segregation like "Civilized" Westerners did in the U.S until 60's and Apartheid until the 90's

[NajibMekki]

@mackjeez Looks like your wife has been brainwashing you!Imagine comparing the Ottoman's Empire excesses to the inquisition when Jews precisely ran from Christians to Morocco and to...get this: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE! Imagine having the nerve to deny the massive rapes of Algerian girls by the French colonizers until 1962! Imagine the Christian Lebanese gift to the Palestinian Refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, compliments of Sharon and the west! Imagine daring to speak of Armenians after both WW!