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| Planet of The Arabs |
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By Jackie Salloum.
http://www.jsalloum.org/videos.html
Official selection of the Sundance Film
Festival 2005
A trailer-esque montage spectacle of
Hollywood's relentless vilification and
dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.
Inspired by the book
"Reel Bad Arabs"
by Dr. Jack Shaheen
Out of 1000 films that have Arab & Muslim
characters (from the year 1896 to 2000)
12 were postive depictions, 52 were even
handed and the rest of the 90O and so were
negative.
Tags : Arabs Media Bias Planet Sundance Salloum |
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Affichage : 232933
Durée : 540 s |
| Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People |
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http://www.ReelBadArabs.com
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"--along 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
Tags : Reel Bad Arabs terrorists stereotypes racism Jack Shaheen Arab Hollywood images aladdin disney true lies MEF |
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Affichage : 66923
Durée : 320 s |
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