Things I Found At Work: Notes on Hollywood “Arabs”

Posted by McJAWN on June 2, 2009 · 1 Comment 

I was completing interlibrary loan requests and saw that someone had left her notes inside of a book she was reading. The book is about Hollywood representations of Arabs. I guess the tendency is to lump a whole buncha people into the category “Muslim/Arab/Terrorist”. This tendency manifests in film: Side 1 “From cinema’s beginning, Hollywood’s fractured mirrors of popular imagination lumped together Muslims & Arabs as one homogenous blob…These... Read More

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