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It started as fun and entertainment, then became a stereotype, then evolved into racism, and crossed over from Arabs to a broader Islamophobia. 

REEL BAD ARABS is a groundbreaking Film that dissects a slanderous cinematic history. The films examined here date from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding, bomb-exploding "evil" Arabs. This is a documentary Film exposing the film industry and how nearly 20% of all major motion pictures often "go out of their way"  injecting clips often having nothing to do with the stories, but only to enforce racism and Islamophobia.

Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver screen, painstakingly makes his case that "Arab" has remained Hollywood's shameless shorthand for "bad guy," long after the movie industry has shifted its portrayal of other minority groups.

In this comprehensive study of nearly 1,000 films, Shaheen brilliantly exposes Hollywood.  In one clip, Shaheen brings to our attention the opening theme song with Disney's Aladdin Cartoon with its direct and subconscious message, "they cut of your ears if they don't like your face, it is barbaric, but hey, it is home" .

Even in movies when the audiences tend to sympathize with Muslim characters, often the conclusion takes a complete twist, so that such sympathy is never realized.

Published by Interlink Publishing. www.interlinkbooks.com