Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People, Paperback

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Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver screen, painstakingly makes his case that ``Arab`` has remained Hollywood's shameless shorthand for ``bad guy,`` long after the movie industry has shifted its portrayal of other minority groups. In this comprehensive study of over one thousand films, arranged alphabetically in such chapters as ``Villains,`` ``Sheikhs,`` ``Cameos,`` and ``Cliffhangers,`` Shaheen documents the tendency to portray Muslim Arabs as Public Enemy #1-brutal, heartless, uncivilized Others bent on terrorizing civilized Westerners. Shaheen 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.