Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 1, 2006

Runtime

0h 50m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

57%

Original Title

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

Director

Jeremy Earp

Description

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.