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Reel Bad Arabs : How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack G. Shaheen (2012, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherInterlink Publishing Group, Incorporated

ISBN-101566567521

ISBN-139781566567527

eBay Product ID (ePID)71671344

Product Key Features

Book TitleReel Bad Arabs : How Hollywood Vilifies a People

Number of Pages672 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicFilm / General, World / Middle Eastern, Social Psychology, Film / History & Criticism

GenrePolitical Science, Performing Arts, Psychology

AuthorJack G. Shaheen

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight37.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-285173

ReviewsJack Shaheen continues to be a piercing laser of fairness and sanity in pointing out Hollywood's ongoing egregious smearing of Arabs. Rippling with smart insights, his book should be read by everyone who agrees that knowledge is society's greatest tool in battling all kinds of stereotypes.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal791.4362174927

SynopsisA groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" Arabs Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver screen, painstakingly makes his case that "Arab" has remained Hollywood's shameless shorthand for "bad guy," long after the movie industry has shifted its portrayal of other minority groups. In this comprehensive study of over one thousand films, arranged alphabetically in such chapters as "Villains," "Sheikhs," "Cameos," and "Cliffhangers," Shaheen documents the tendency to portray Muslim Arabs as Public Enemy #1--brutal, heartless, uncivilized Others bent on terrorizing civilized Westerners. Shaheen examines how and why such a stereotype has grown and spread in the film industry and what may be done to change Hollywood's defamation of Arabs.

LC Classification NumberPN1995