Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (part 4)

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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[afro747]

At 00:38, it is true. After the Oaklahoma City bombing, I remember many assumed Arabs had done it. One guy on the radio called it, an act of war.

But, after it was learned that a Neo-Nazi had done it, then, all the right wing radio buzzing went silent.

[IneptTroopr]

@joy2559 Firstly, the Spanish Christians and the Moors have little to nothing to do with the Second Crusade. KoH is definitely historical fiction, in that it glosses over the atrocities committed by the Saracen forces, but it is still easily one of the most historically accurate depictions of the Crusades in film, as it depicts both sides as morally ambiguous, and shows that in general, the Muslims, and specifically Saladin, were far more tolerant than their Christian counterparts.

[johnnyharadrim]

Oded Fehr is an Israeli

[omer88f]

GreaAat . . ♥

[IneptTroopr]

@alldamnnamesaretaken Its still a Hollywood film, which means right off the bat any assumption of an attempt to mirror historical events should be discarded. I see it more as a modern loose interpretation of events leading up to the Third Crusade, using modern secular values and morality, so that audiences can more easily understand and sympathize with the characters. If the film was accurate (an impossible task to begin with), than it would be unwatchable and unrelatable to a modern audience.

[alldamnnamesaretaken]

@IneptTroopr

Wich is BS, calling KOH historically accurate is an atrocity to history

[Humanophage]

Check any list of terrorist acts by death toll. 90% will be committed by Muslims, and over a half by Arabs. It is hardly unreasonable to look for Arab trace in mass bombings.

[mstee321]

Did anyone hear @ 2:46 "...SKULLS AND BONES INITIATION?" I hate America. America is the most racist place to be. Just like the movie "Soul Plane". I'm blk, but I still found it offensive to watch dem portray an Islamic man enters the plane and everyone stopped everything they were doing and stared @ him with fear in their eyes, assuming he was a terrorist. SMDH!

[mstee321]

Did anyone hear @ 2:46 "...SKULLS AND BONES INITIATION?" I hate America. America is the most racist place to be.

[IneptTroopr]

@CarolX2 Three Kings is presenting Arabs in a positive light in one of the only ways Americans know how to interact with them: war. That is not racist, it is flipping our stereotypes of them on their head. If we are refused the ability to demonize in even violent conflict, than we are even more likely to view them in a positive way in peaceful situations as well.

[N1Kki7]

ok the video keeps stopping halfway, ¬_¬