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ISBN: 1849643172 1281751014 9786611751012 1435662709 9781849643177 6611751017 9781435662704 0745325114 9780745325118 0745325106 9780745325101 9781281751010 Year: 2006 Publisher: London Ann Arbor, MI Pluto Press
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Bloody Sunday, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972. --- Demonstrations --- Political violence --- History --- Derry (Northern Ireland) --- History.
ISBN: 0292713428 9780292713420 029271341X 9780292713413 Year: 2006 Publisher: Austin University of Texas Press
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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 visual tropes, he analyzes how the films portray Arabs as threatening to subvert American "truths" and mythic tales--and how the insecurity this engenders causes Americans to project evil character and intentions on Arab peoples, landscapes, and cultures. Semmerling also demonstrates how the "evil" Arab narrative has even crept into the documentary coverage of 9/11. Overall, Semmerling's probing analysis of America's Orientalist fears exposes how the "evil" Arab of American popular film is actually an illusion that reveals more about Americans than Arabs.
America Remembers (Film) --- America Remembers (motion picture) --- Arabes dans le cinéma --- Arabieren in de film --- Arabs in motion pictures --- Black Sunday (Film) --- Black Sunday (motion picture) --- CNN Tribute: American Remembers --- L'exorciste (Film) --- Rollover (Film) --- Rollover (motion picture) --- Rules of Engagement (Film) --- Rules of Engagement (motion picture) --- The Exorcist (Film) --- The Exorcist (motion picture) --- Three Kings (Film) --- Three Kings (motion picture) --- Arabs in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- History. --- United States --- History
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ISBN: 9042917806 9789042917804 Year: 2006 Volume: 33 Publisher: Leuven Uitgeverij Peeters
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Palm Sunday --- Donkeys --- Processions, Religious --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Academic collection --- #GBIB:SMM --- C1 --- volkscultuur --- West-Europa (x) --- iconografie --- C3 --- plastische kunsten --- schilderkunst --- processies --- Hoegaarden [gemeente in arrondissement Leuven - BE] --- 264-057 --- 264-041.52 --- 22 --- 949.32 LEUVEN --- Kerken en religie --- Kunst en cultuur --- Processies --- Palmzondag. Goede week. Witte donderdag. Goede vrijdag --- Bijbel --- Geschiedenis van België: hertogdom Brabant; provincie Brabant--(reg./lok.)--LEUVEN --- Exhibitions --- 949.32 LEUVEN Geschiedenis van België: hertogdom Brabant; provincie Brabant--(reg./lok.)--LEUVEN --- 264-041.52 Palmzondag. Goede week. Witte donderdag. Goede vrijdag --- 264-057 Processies --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Christian special devotions --- processions --- sculpture [visual works] --- illuminated manuscripts --- religious art --- Hoegaarden --- Ecclesiastical processions --- Processions, Ecclesiastical --- Religious processions --- Rites and ceremonies --- Second Passion Sunday --- Fasts and feasts --- Holy Week --- Ass, Small --- Burros --- Domestic ass --- Equus africanus asinus --- Equus asinus asinus --- African wild ass --- Equus --- Livestock --- Hinnies --- Mules --- 245.2 --- Processies--Hoegaarden --- Geschiedenis van België: hertogdom Brabant--provincie Brabant--(reg./lok.)--LEUVEN --- Palm Sunday - Europe - History - Exhibitions --- Donkeys - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - Exhibitions --- Processions, Religious - Christianity - History - Exhibitions --- Processions, Religious - Europe - History - Exhibitions
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