Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People - Couverture souple

Shaheen, Jack G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566563887 ISBN 13 : 9781566563888

Editeur : Roundhouse Publishing Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Shaheen Jack G

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Countless movies have portrayed Arabs as loathsome lechers who terrorise, murder, and finally die in droves. In 'Reel Bad Arabs' film scholar Jack Shaheen exposes in fascinating detail this appalling side of the Hollywood 'dream' machine. His stupendous study dissects this slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature Bedouin bandits, sinister sheikhs, machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" Arabs. He examines how and why such a stereotype has grown and spread in the film industry and what may be done to change Hollywood's defamation of Arabs.

Revue de presse

Caricatured villains are as vital to the movie business as car chases and shoot-outs. But the spotlight of derision shifts. When blacks were no longer shiftless jokes, the Asians no longer the Yellow Peril, and good Indians no longer had to be dead Indians, Arabs became the all-purpose bad-guys. Countless movies have portrayed them as loathsome lechers who terrorize, murder, and finally die in droves. In 'Reel Bad Arabs' scholar Jack Shaheen exposes in appalling detail this nightmare side of the Hollywood dream machine. --Christopher Dickey, Middle East Editor for Newsweek Magazine

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Roundhouse Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566563887
• ISBN 13: 9781566563888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 584
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible