Guilty Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11

Name: Guilty Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11
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ISBN: 9781566566841

ISBN-10: 1566566843

ISBN-13: 9781566566841

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jack G. Shaheen

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"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…

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 6.18" tall
Weight: 0.792

Analysis	p. 1
The Impact of 9/11	p. 3
Reel Negatives	p. 25
Reel Positives	p. 35
TV's Arab-American Bogeymen	p. 44
Real Solutions	p. 54
Conclusions	p. 85
The Films	p. 91
Film Categories	p. 183
Works Cited	p. 190
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