Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

(2006)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 13 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2006

Runtime: 50 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Sut Jhally, Jeremy Earp

Cast: Jack Shaheen

Plot

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.