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Title Reel bad Arabs : how Hollywood vilifies a people / a Media Education Foundation production ; directed by Sut Jhally ; produced by Jeremy Earp.

Publication Info. Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2006]
©2006

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 Moore Video  PN1995.9.A68 R44 2006    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (50 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
System Details DVD.
Note Based on the book of the same title by Jack Shaheen.
Performer Presenter: Jack Shaheen.
Credits Music composed & performed by Simon Shaheen; edited by Sut Jhally, Andrew Killoy, Mary Patierno.
Audience "Viewer discretion advised, contains violent imagery and graphic language."
Summary Throughout its history Hollywood has portrayed Arabs as buffoons or bandits. The video seeks to rectify this sterotyping by comparing it to other forms of racist imagery and by suggesting alternative narratives that treat the Arabs as human, not demons.
Contents Introduction (3:20) -- Myths of Arabland (10:30) -- Arab threat: Mideast politics & Hollywood (4:36) -- Terror, Inc.: demonizing Palestinians & Muslims (7:40) -- Only good Arab (5:09) -- Islamophobia (6:19) -- Getting real (11:58).
Language In English with optional English or Arabic subtitles.
Subject Arabs in motion pictures.
Arabs in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Added Author Jhally, Sut.
Earp, Jeremy.
Shaheen, Simon.
Killoy, Andrew.
Patierno, Mary.
Shaheen, Jack G., 1935-2017. Reel bad Arabs.
Media Education Foundation.
Added Title Arab threat: Mideast politics & Hollywood.
Only good Arab.
ISBN 193286900X
9781932869002