--- title: 'Reel Bad Arabs (2006)' type: 'film' director: 'Sut Jhally' released: '2006-01-01' runtime_minutes: 50 genres: - 'Documentary' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/reel-bad-arabs-2006' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948465/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Reel Bad Arabs (2006) 2006 · 50 min · Documentary · United States ## Synopsis Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People is a documentary film directed by Sut Jhally and produced by Media Education Foundation in 2006. This film is an extension of the book of the same name by Jack Shaheen, which also analyzes how Hollywood corrupts or manipulates the image of Arabs. The documentary analyzes 1,000 films that have Arab and Muslim characters, produced between 1896 and 2000, out of which great majority, 936 titles, were negative in their portrayal, arguing that the slander of Arabs in American filmmaking has existed since the early days of the silent cinema and is present in the biggest Hollywood blockbusters today. Jack Shaheen analyzes a long series of "demeaning" images of Arabs through his presentation of various scenes from different American movies which he has studied. He argues that this image is characterized by showing Arabs either as bandits or as a savage, nomadic race, or shows Arab women as shallow belly dancers serving evil, naïve, and greedy Arab sheiks. Most important is the image of the rifle in the hands of Arab "terrorists". The film then attempts to explain the motivations behind these stereotypes about Arabs, and their development at ke ## Credits - **Screenplay:** [Jack Shaheen](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-shaheen) - **Director:** [Sut Jhally](https://cinepixo.com/people/sut-jhally) - **Editor:** [Sut Jhally](https://cinepixo.com/people/sut-jhally) - **Original Music Composer:** [Simon Shaheen](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-shaheen) ## Cast - [Jack Shaheen](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-shaheen) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/reel-bad-arabs-2006 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1336622); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.