Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

United States of America

• 2006-11-01
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  Documentary
• ▪ 0h-50m

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Overview

This 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. 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.

• Jeremy EarpProducer

  Andrew KilloyEditor

  Mary PatiernoEditor

  Jeremy EarpDirector

  Sut JhallyDirector

  Jeremy EarpWriter