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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

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Bo Derek Bo Derek
(archive footage)
Ana Obregón Ana Obregón
Catalina
Jack Shaheen Jack Shaheen
Self - Narrator


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Description: 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 t ... (more)
Release date: 1 November 2006
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