Guilty : Hollywood's verdict on Arabs after 9/11 / Jack G. Shaheen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaheen, Jack G., 1935-2017.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabs in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States.

Motion pictures.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2008.

Summary:

"Nothing will be the same again." Americans scarred by the experience of 9/11 often express this sentiment. But what remains the same, argues Jack Shaheen, is Hollywood's stereotyping of Arabs. In his new book about films made after 9/11, Shaheen finds that nearly all of Hollywood's post-9/11 films legitimize a view of Arabs as stereotyped villains and the use of Arabs and Muslims as shorthand for the "Enemy" or "Other." Along with an examination of a hundred recent movies. Shaheen addresses the cultural issues at play since 9/11: the government's public relations campaigns to win "hearts and minds" and the impact of 9/11 on citizens and on the imagination. He suggests that winning the "war on terror" would take shattering the centuries-old stereotypes of Arabs, and frames the solutions needed to begin to tackle the problem and to change the industry and culture at large.

Contents:

The impact of 9/11

Reel negatives

Reel positives

TV's Arab-American bogeymen

Real solutions

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-198).

ISBN:

9781566566841

1566566843

OCLC:

154678019