{"product_id":"9781623710200","title":"Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9\/11","description":"\"Nothing will be the same again.\" Americans scarred by the experience of 9\/11 often express this sentiment. But what remains the same, argues Jack G. Shaheen, is Hollywood's stereotyping of Arabs. Before 9\/11, Shaheen dissected Hollywood's equation of Islam and Arabs with violence in Reel Bad Arabs, his comprehensive study of over a thousand movies. Arabs and Muslims, he showed, were used as shorthand for the \"Enemy\" and the \"Other.\" In his new book about films made after 9\/11, Shaheen finds the same malevolent stereotypes at play. Nearly all of Hollywood's post-9\/11 films legitimize a view of Arabs as stereotyped villains-sheikhs, Palestinians, or terrorists. And this happens in every type of film imaginable: one out of four of the movies profiled here have absolutely nothing to do with the Middle East, yet producers toss in weird, shady, unscrupulous Arabs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with an examination of a hundred recent movies, Shaheen addresses the cultural issues at play since 9\/11: the government's public relations campaigns to win \"hearts and minds\" and the impact of 9\/11 on citizens and on the imagination. He suggests that winning the \"war on terror\" would take shattering the century-old stereotypes of Arabs. He calls for speaking out, for more Arab Americans in the film industry, for fresh films, and for a serious effort on the part of our government to tackle this problem.","brand":"Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130709557488,"sku":"9781623710200","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623710200_p0.jpg?v=1763863446","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623710200","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}