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

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

Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11

by Jack Shaheen

198 pages· 2012· ISBN 9781623710200
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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 G. Shaheen, is Hollywood's stereotyping of Arabs. Before 9/11, Shaheen dissected Hollywood's equation of Islam and Arabs with violence in Reel Bad Arabs, his comprehensive study of over a thousand movies. Arabs and Muslims, he showed, were used as shorthand for the ""Enemy"" and the ""Other."" In his new book about films made after 9/11, Shaheen finds the same malevolent stereotypes at play. Nearly all of Hollywood's post-9/11 films legitimiz.

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