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    Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

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    Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

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    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.

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    Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

    Documentary

    2006

    1:53:15
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    Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

    over 19 years ago ...more

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    Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

    over 19 years ago

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    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.

    Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People Poster

    Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

    Documentary

    2006

    1:53:15
    7.3
    Battle Royale

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    The Starving Games

    The Starving Games

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