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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 on terror" would take shattering the centuries-old stereotypes of Arabs, and frames the solutions needed to begin to tackle the problem and to change the industry and culture at large.

Book details

• Full title: Guilty
• Subtitle: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11
• Author: Jack G. Shaheen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198
• EAN: 9781566566841
• ID: 11112720
• Publisher: Olive Branch Pr
• Weight: 362 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 159 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. January 2008

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