➹ [Reading] ➻ Evil Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear By Tim Jon Semmerling ➮ – Rildem.co Runner up 2006 Arab American National Museum Book Awards 2007The evil Arab has become a stock character in American popular films playing the villain opposite American good guys who fight for the AmerRunner up 2006 Arab American National Museum Book Awards 2007The evil Arab has become a stock character in American popular films playing the villain opposite American good guys who fight for the American way It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture given the real world conflicts between the United States and Middle Eastern countries particularly since the oil embargo of the 1970s and continuing through the Iranian hostage crisis the first and second Gulf Wars and the ongoing struggle against al aeda But when one compares the evil Arab of popular culture to real Arab people the stereotype falls apart In this thought provoking book Tim Jon Semmerling further dismantles the evil Arab stereotype by showing how American cultural fears which stem from challenges to our national ideologies and myths have driven us to create the evil Arab Other Semmerling bases his argument on close readings of six films The Exorcist Rollover Black Sunday Three Kings Rules of Engagement and South Park Bigger Longer & Uncut as well as CNN's 911 documentary America Remembers Looking at their narrative structures and visual tropes he analyzes how the films portray Arabs as threatening to subvert American truths and mythic tales and how the insecurity this engenders causes Americans to project evil character and intentions on Arab peoples landscapes and cultures Semmerling also demonstrates how the evil Arab narrative has even crept into the documentary coverage of 911 Overall Semmerling's probing analysis of America's Orientalist fears exposes how the evil Arab of American popular film is actually an illusion that revealsabout Americans than Arabs.
Runner up 2006 Arab American National Museum Book Awards 2007The evil Arab has become a stock character in American popular films playing the villain opposite American good guys who fight for the American way It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture given the real world conflicts between the United States and Middle Eastern countries particularly since the oil embargo of the 1970s and continuing through the Iranian hostage crisis the first and second Gulf Wars and the ongoing struggle against al aeda But when one compares the evil Arab of popular culture to real Arab people the stereotype falls apart In this thought provoking book Tim Jon Semmerling further dismantles the evil Arab stereotype by showing how American cultural fears which stem from challenges to our national ideologies and myths have driven us to create the evil Arab Other Semmerling bases his argument on close readings of six films The Exorcist Rollover Black Sunday Three Kings Rules of Engagement and South Park Bigger Longer & Uncut as well as CNN's 911 documentary America Remembers Looking at their narrative structures and visual tropes he analyzes how the films portray Arabs as threatening to subvert American truths and mythic tales and how the insecurity this engenders causes Americans to project evil character and intentions on Arab peoples landscapes and cultures Semmerling also demonstrates how the evil Arab narrative has even crept into the documentary coverage of 911 Overall Semmerling's probing analysis of America's Orientalist fears exposes how the evil Arab of American popular film is actually an illusion that revealsabout Americans than Arabs.
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