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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)
Directed by Sut Jhally, Jeremy Earp
Documentary · 50m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Sut Jhally, Jeremy Earp
- Writer
- Jack Shaheen, Jeremy Earp
- Original Music Composer
- Simon Shaheen
- Editor
- Mary Patierno, Sut Jhally, Andrew Killoy
- Producer
- Jeremy Earp
Details
- Release date
- 2006-11-01
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America