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2006 — Runner-up, Arab American National Museum Book Awards The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "the American way." It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world conflicts between the United States and Middle Eastern countries, particularly since the oil embargo of the 1970s and continuing through the Iranian hostage crisis, the first and second Gulf Wars, and the ongoing struggle against al-Qaeda. But when one compares the "evil" Arab of popular culture to real Arab people, the stereotype falls apart. In this thought-provoking book, Tim Jon Semmerling further dismantles the "evil" Arab stereotype by showing how American cultural fears, which stem from challenges to our national ideologies and myths, have driven us to create the "evil" Arab Other. Semmerling bases his argument on close readings of six films ( The Exorcist , Rollover , Black Sunday , Three Kings , Rules of Engagement , and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ), as well as CNN's 9/11 documentary America Remembers . Looking at their narrative structures and visu

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Author

Tim Jon Semmerling

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292713420

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Performing Arts, Science