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Subject: Reel Bad Arabs
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jlh1182 26.12.11 - 05:26pm
How Hollywood Vilifies a people is a 2001 book byJack Shaheen where he surveyedmore than 900 film appearancesof Arab characters in Hollywood films.. * +
jlh1182 26.12.11 - 05:29pm
He contends that the movies with the mostanti-Arab content are: Rules of Engagement (2000), The Delta Force (1986) Death Before Dishonor (1987) and True Lies (1994).. * +
jlh1182 26.12.11 - 05:31pm
Included on the worst list are: The Black Stallion (1979) The Black Stallion Returns (1984) Protocol (1984) Back to the Future (1985) The Delta Force (1986) Iron Eagle (1986) Ishtar (1987) The Taking of Flight 847 (1988) Terror in Beverly Hills (1988) The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) Navy SEALs (1990) Killing Streets (1991) Chain of Command (1993) Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero (1994) True Lies (1994) Operation Condor (1997) Freedom Strike (1998) Rules of Engagement (2000) * +
jlh1182 26.12.11 - 05:32pm
Inspired by the 'worst list', a 9- minute-long trailer called 'Planet of the Arabs' was assembled. This short was an Official Selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. * +
jlh1182 26.12.11 - 05:40pm
heres a transcrip of dr shaheen in the dvd adaption of the book: * +
jlh1182 26.12.11 - 05:41pm
JACK SHAHEEN: For years, I have looked at how we particularly, when I say 'we,' image makers have projected Arabs on silver screens. In my latest book, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People, I looked at more than 1,000 films, films ranging from the earliest, most obscure days of Hollywood to todays biggest blockbusters. * +
jlh1182 26.12.11 - 05:42pm
And what I tried to do is to make visible what too many of us seem not to see: a dangerously consistent pattern of hateful Arab stereotypes, stereotypes that rob an entire people of their humanity. * +
jlh1182 26.12.11 - 05:43pm
All aspects of our culture project the Arab as villain. That is a given. There is no deviation. We have taken a few structured images and repeated them over and over again. Whether one lives in Paduka, Kentucky or Wood River, Illinois, we know basically the same thing. We know the mythology the mythology, namely Hollywoods images of Arabs. * +
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