Stereotypes In Film

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Kerem Bayraktaroğlu is a graduate student in the Department of English at University of Exeter whose interest is in Film and Media Studies, and is also a film reviewer. His journal article analyzes the changing stereotypes of Muslim characters in American cinema since 9/11 incident and what new character types have been developed to reflect these images.

The excerpt identifies the development of stereotypes of Muslim characters in various films from the early 2000s through physical appearance and behavioral attributes analysis. It also investigates the unchanging character features as well as detecting new formations of Hollywood's Muslim characters. This paper is relevant to my topic as it serves to support the counterargument against the

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