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What We Learn about Arab Communities from Action-Adventure Films

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Vydavatel: Lexington Books
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 10-18 dnů
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As the American government uses the threat of terrorist violence to justify stringent domestic and e...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2008
Stránek
112
EAN
9780739127858
ISBN
0739127853
Enbook ID
04903170
Vydavatel
Hmotnost
340
Rozměry
161 x 241 x 15

Kompletní popis

As the American government uses the threat of terrorist violence to justify stringent domestic and exploitative foreign policies, Arab communities in the United States face the injustice of racial profiling and harrassment. The reaction of Americans to the genre of action-adventure film and its increasing use of Arabs as villians shows how our perceptions of Arab communities and individuals has been skewed. Using focus groups composed of a diverse cross-section of Americans, Karin Gwinn Wilkins analyzes how participants differ in their perception of specific action-adventure films and their Arab villains. More specifically, Wilkins interviews participants and asks them questions directly related to three topics: villains as threats to national security, film settings in relation to fear within global space and the Middle East, and heroes conquering evil. This book addresses the neglected empirical link between documented media stereotypes of Arab communities and the lived consequences of these portrayals, in terms of discriminatory practices and generalizations.

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