For the last hundred plus years Hollywood has used repetition as a teaching mechanism to reinforce negative stereotypes through images surrounding Arab people. Stereotypes are part of individual’s everyday lives. Every person in the world is associated with some sort of cultural label that can be either positive or negative. Stereotypes affect individual’s emotions, social lives and how they relate to their environment (Site). When North American individuals think about Muslims and Arabs, the picture that pops into their head are not likely accurate representations of real people, but misconceptions based off of Hollywood films and former cultural typecasts. Western individuals seem “to believe that the actions of small groups of extremists in the Muslim world actually reflect the beliefs of 1.3 billion people” (Site-Arabs).
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Jack Shaheen discusses the world’s representation of Muslim and Arabs in American culture. In this film, Shaheen examines the continuing ways that Hollywood has slandered Arabs since the beginning of the silent area as, violent, and dishonest people. In this movie he shows example after example of how Arabs have been portrayed as from an exotic land that is occupied by savage and unkind men who are otherwise vilified and ridiculed as incompetent and hazardous terrorists.
Reel Injun takes an insightful look at how Hollywood has portrayed Native North Americans over 4000 films created by Hollywood over the history of cinemas (Site Movie). Filmmaker Neil Diamond travels through the middle of the American Cree to look at how the myth of “the Injun” has affected people’s misunderstanding of Native North American’s. Diamond uses candid interviews and hundreds of definitive movie clips to look at the development of cinema’s representation of Native people from the silent era to modern day
Jack Shaheen discusses the world’s representation of Muslim and Arabs in American culture. In this film, Shaheen examines the continuing ways that Hollywood has slandered Arabs since the beginning of the silent area as, violent, and dishonest people. In this movie he shows example after example of how Arabs have been portrayed as from an exotic land that is occupied by savage and unkind men who are otherwise vilified and ridiculed as incompetent and hazardous terrorists.
Reel Injun takes an insightful look at how Hollywood has portrayed Native North Americans over 4000 films created by Hollywood over the history of cinemas (Site Movie). Filmmaker Neil Diamond travels through the middle of the American Cree to look at how the myth of “the Injun” has affected people’s misunderstanding of Native North American’s. Diamond uses candid interviews and hundreds of definitive movie clips to look at the development of cinema’s representation of Native people from the silent era to modern day