| Planet of The Arabs - 540 sec By Jackie Salloum. http://www.jsalloum.org/videos.html
Official selection of the Sundance Film Festival 2005
A trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood's relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.
Inspired by the book
"Reel Bad Arabs"
by Dr. Jack Shaheen
Out of 1000 films that have Arab & Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000)
12 were postive depictions, 52 were even handed and the rest of the 90O and so were negative. Tags: Arabs Media Bias Planet Sundance Salloum  |
| Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People - 320 sec http://www.ReelBadArabs.com
This groundbreaking 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. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, 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. Shaheen shows how the persistence of these images over time has served to naturalize prejudicial attitudes toward Arabs and Arab culture, in the process reinforcing a narrow view of individual Arabs and the effects of specific US domestic and internationl policies on their lives. By inspiring critical thinking about the social, political, and basic human consequences of leaving these Hollywood caricatures unexamined, the film challenges viewers to recognize the urgent need for counter-narratives that do justice to the diversity and humanity of Arab people and the reality and richness of Arab history and culture.
Director: Sut Jhally
Biographical Summary:
Dr. Jack Shaheen, Professor Emeritus of Mass Communication at Southern Illinois University, is a leading scholar of Arab representations in US popular culture. Shaheen is the author of the groundbreaking study The TV Arab and, most recently, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People, the most comprehensive review of Arab screen images ever published. Analyzing over 900 Hollywood films made from 1896 to 2004, Dr. Shaheen exposes American cinema's systematic and pervasive degradation and dehumanization of Arabs.
Articles:
"Jack Shaheen continues to be a piercing laser of fairness and sanity in pointing out Hollywood's ongoing egregious smearing of Arabs."
Howard Rosenberg | Los Angeles Times TV Critic Tags:Reel Bad Arabs terrorists stereotypes racism Jack Shaheen Arab Hollywood images aladdin disney true lies MEF |
| More fun with the funny arabs - 48 sec As i told in my description in funny arabic execution
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dNfq8GDWYUA
that i would give you more funny arabic videos. Here it is L0L.
REMEMBER: JUST BECUS THESE ARABS ARE FUNNY, DOESN'T MEAN, THAT EVERY ARAB IS A JACKASS. ALL NON-RESPECTABLE COMMENTS WILL BE DELETED! Tags: Funny arabic recoil kick singing hit wall throw |
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