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Reel bad Arabs : how Hollywood vilifies a people
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Throughout its history Hollywood has portrayed Arabs as buffoons or bandits. The video seeks to rectify this stereotyping by comparing it to other forms of racist imagery and by suggesting alternat...
Throughout its history Hollywood has portrayed Arabs as buffoons or bandits. The video seeks to rectify this stereotyping by comparing it to other forms of racist imagery and by suggesting alternative narratives that treat the Arabs as human, not demons.
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- Creator
- a Media Education Foundation production ; directed by Sut Jhally ; produced by Jeremy Earp
- Included Titles
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- Arab threat: Mideast politics & Hollywood
- Only good Arab
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
- ISBNs
- 193286900X, 9781932869002
- OCLC
- ocm75201830
- Credits
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- Presenter: Jack Shaheen
- Music composed & performed by Simon Shaheen; edited by Sut Jhally, Andrew Killoy, Mary Patierno
- Based on the book Reel bad Arabs / by Jack Shaheen.
- DVD, NTSC.
- In English with optional English or Arabic subtitles.
- Introduction (3:20) -- Myths of Arabland (10:30) -- The Arab threat: Mideast politics & Hollywood (4:36) -- Terror, Inc.: demonizing Palestinians & Muslims (7:40) -- The only good Arab (5:09) -- Islamophobia (6:19) -- Getting real (11:58)