Comparison Between The American Sniper And The American Sniper

In spite of the portrayal of the terrorists in 1970s movies where they are shown to be some how victims of circumstance, being a war veteran and having suffered years of torture, financial losses, and marital problems, in the 80s movies barely make any effort to explain why an individual has chosen the wrong path. Villains are purely evil in fact the movies portray the terrorists as savages who are secluded from the society and have psychotic tendencies. Even though the picture of an Arab gun man was becoming more and more prevalent in the terrorism-themed movies of the 80s, a biased association of middle eastern ethnicity or the religion of Islam to terrorism was not formed yet. It is apparent that Hollywood was not particularly focused to

The term “sniper” means someone who shoots from a hiding place at a long range with extreme accuracy. It is said that it takes the average sniper only 1.3 bullets to kill his target. In the military the sniper has two jobs. The first job is to deliver long range fire on selected targets. The second job is is to collect and report information about the battlefield. Snipers have been used in the united states military as far back as the American Civil War, but they were called sharpshooters then. From then to now both their techniques and technology have changed together.

The analysis of the film will take place in four parts: (1) conflict between minority and majority groups; (2) film’s perspective in approach to the problem of anti-semitism; (3)

The world of Disney it is not necessarily magic for everyone. In Western popular culture there is an endless buffet serving stereotypical ideologies for racially marked women. The media often relies on representation of articulation of ethnic women as animalistic, inferior and outside the natural. Films tend to utilize signifiers that express race, class and gender to develop characters. For this assignment, I have chosen to critically analyze Disney’s (1992) Aladdin; this movie exemplifies the racialization of female bodies through visual illustrations that reinforce ideas of stereotypical roles of Middle Eastern that have been over-looked through the eyes of children. Aladdin; is considered a modern example of Edward Said’s concept of orientalism from a Western perspective. In this paper I will examine how Disney’s Aladdin perpetuates ideas of ‘othering’ through orientalism, over-sexualized characters and reinforces islamophobia.

“When all imagemakers rightfully begin to treat Arabs and all other minorities with respect and dignity, we may begin to unlearn our prejudices” (Shaheen 87).

By continually representing the Muslim or the Arab as the heartless villain, even cartoon movies contain a biased perspective against the Muslim image in America. All that glitters is not gold, and this is true for films fresh off the reels of Hollywood, as some contain an unfair perspective of Muslims.

Summary The documentary film entitled “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People” [1] which was directed by Sut Jhally, is an extension of a book written by Jack Shaheen and has the same title as the film. It was Shaheen who narrated the movie. This film relates to the issue of Arabs’ image in the old obscure movies and today’s biggest hits in the cinema.

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack G. Shaheen discuses how Hollywood cinema has portrayed Arabs the exact same way in over 900 films for the past century. Shaheen believes Hollywood films perpetuate stereotypes on Arabs, and with the use of repetition, filmmakers can convince moviegoers to believe that all Arabs are the same. In the article Shaheen states that Arabs are demonstrated as evil, sex-crazed, murderous, and wealth obsessed villains, and he wants audiences to see that just like Whites, African Americans, and Latinos, not all Arabs are the same. Shaheen fears people as a whole have a tainted view on any and all Arabs who one would come across due to the increasingly similar movies that portray them as bad people. It is easy to believe this because if one watches any two movies about mummies in the Middle East, the characters and plot are the same, just like

Often when ‘Blacks’ are portrayed in films they are typically assigned supporting roles. Hollywood black actors are often typecast as criminal and violent. Specific devices are also used in media representations of ethnic minorities to perceive ‘them’ as a threat. In fact, Jaspal and Cinnirella (2010) claims that there is a pervasive tendency to portray Muslims as threatening. One of the principle rhetorical strategies used by popular media to reinforce this dichotomy between cultures is achieved through delineating the in group from the out group. Jaspal and Cinnirella (2010) explained how the widespread of the noun phrase ‘the Muslim world’ acts to create a homogenous social entity which is in opposition to the west. The second process used to act to segregate or marginalised muslims through the act of rejection, which is a device focusing on portraying on negative social representations. Michael Welch (2016) suggest that immigrants pose a threat to America’s Eurocentric culture. He argues that the media is responsible for fuelling anti-immigrant hostility through the process of criminalising immigrants by portraying them as predatory

Hollywood, film and televsion shows pollute our minds with a negative image of the Arabian community. Hollywood discriminates against the Arab community and portrays these people as villains. This is made evident in the 1944 film, “True Lies” that depicts that Arab community as violent people. This shows that hollywood films can often prejudice against Arab people. Also in “Arabian Nights”, the opening song of the 1992 Disney film “Aladdin” the lyrics state “ Oh, I come from a land. From a faraway place. Where they caravan camels roam. Where they cut of your ear. If they don’t like your face. It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home.” This shows that the movie Aladdin, also discriminates against the Arab community in the lyrics of it’s opening song. This makes evident that Hollywood, film and televsion shows perpetuate people with a false image of the Arabian community.

In fact, they are “the most maligned group” and invariably portrayed as villains or terrorists; he notes the pervasive power of film and the link between the movie industry and the government, quoting Valenti of the MPAA, “Washington and Hollywood share the same DNA” (Shaheen, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People, documentary 2006). So, whether it is a movie done through the US Dept. of Defense, like Rules of Engagement in 2000, talk programs like the Rush Limbaugh Show, evangelical broadcasts, or even Disney flicks like Aladdin in1992, the prevailing picture of Arabs is negative, exerting a powerful influence over the minds of Americans from children to the top echelons of the government. (Shaheen, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People 2001). What about the reverse image? How do Arabs see the United States of America? Is it as

Although its positive influences are evident, the art of Hollywood films is still developing and perpetuating racist stereotypes through the biased portrayal of Muslim characters which produces adverse impact on Muslims in the United States. A survey report on The Arab Journal of Psychiatry conducted by Dr. M. K. Hamza from Lamar University, Texas, showed the evidence of negative impact of the media towards Muslims in particular areas. The data was based on the survey of public perception on Muslims with a total of 90 respondents and collected from several Southeast Texas cities with ninety-two percent of the respondents were Christian, the other 8% represented other religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism with the exclusion of Muslims to

Hollywood producers help shape our definition of evil by constantly polluting our mind with stereotypical propaganda causing laughter, but at the same time adversity for those in our social community. The embellished ‘Mythical Arab-land’ and ‘Demonizing of Palestinians’ are aspects that have caused a consistent projection of their humanity. The films produced build towards a global misconception of a particular religion or race and is counterproductive to any reconciliation for peace. On the other hand, people contradict this false view by simply turning it into comedy, and over time working away the stereotype itself.

A report by the Islamic Human Rights Commission contends that movies as assorted as The Siege, a depiction of a fear monger assault on New York featuring Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis, the Disney film Aladdin and the British comic drama East will be East have belittled Muslims as savage, hazardous and undermining, and strengthen preferences.

Sources 1 and 2 incorporate religious themes which simultaneously have some quantity of bias within them. In Source one it is evident that the characters portrayed are the stereotypical religious Muslim fanatics, commonly known as terrorists. In addition, Source one is from Star Tribune’s perspective, portraying Muslims in a negative way, to gain attention and popularity. In comparison, Source two does not contain any obvious stereotypes, but rathe