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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
by Sut Jhally. USA, 2006, 48 min, Digibeta
October 18, 2007 6:30 PM
Followed by Q & A with distinguished scholar Dr. Jack Shaheen and director Jackie Salloum
Synopsis
This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has gone virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, Reel Bad Arabs 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.
Filmmaker's Biography
Sut Jhally is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). The author of numerous books and articles on media (including The Codes of Advertising and Enlightened Racism) he is also an award-winning teacher. He is best known as the producer and director of a number of films and videos (including Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video; Tough Guise: Media, Violence and the Crisis of Masculinity; and Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire) that deal with issues ranging from gender, sexuality and race to commercialism, violence and politics. Born in Kenya, raised in England, educated in graduate studies in Canada, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Internationally acclaimed author and media critic, Dr. Jack G. Shaheen, is a committed internationalist and a devoted humanist. A Pittsburgh native and former CBS news consultant on Middle East Affairs, Shaheen’s lectures and writings illustrate that damaging racial and ethnic stereotypes of Asians, blacks, Native Americans and others injure innocent people. Professor Shaheen has given over 1,000 lectures in nearly all the 50 states and three continents, is the author of four books, and the recipient of two Fulbright teaching awards.
Festivals and Awards
• Arabian Sights Film Festival in Washington DC, 2007
• Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, 2007
• Date Palm Film Festival in New Zealand, 2007
• Brisbane International Film Festival, 2007
• Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival, 2007
• Cinema de Balie in Amsterdam, 2007
• Dubai International Film Festival, 2006
Print Source
Media Education Foundation
60 Masonic Street, Northampton, Massachusetts 01060
Tel: (800) 897-0089 or (413) 584-8500
Fax: (800) 659-6882 or (413) 586-8398
E-mail: info@mediaed.org
http://www.reelbadarabs.com
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