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Home/Land/Security - What We Learn about Arab Communities from Action-Adventure Films (Hardcover)
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Home/Land/Security - What We Learn about Arab Communities from Action-Adventure Films (Hardcover)
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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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