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Waleed F. Mahdi - Arab Americans in Film, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Arab Americans in Film

From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation

Av Waleed F. Mahdi

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It comes as little surprise that Hollywood films have traditionally stereotyped Arab Americans, but how are Arab Americans portrayed in Arab films, and just as importantly, how are they portrayed in the works of Arab American filmmakers themselves? In this innovative volume, Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of three cinemas, yielding rich insights on the layers of representation and the ways in which those representations are challenged and disrupted. Hollywood films have fostered reductive imagery of Arab Americans since the 1970s as either a national security threat or a foreign policy concern, while Egyptian filmmakers have used polarizing images of Arab Americans since the 1990s to convey their nationalist critiques of the United States. Both portrayals are rooted in anxieties around globalization, migration, and US-Arab geopolitics. In contrast, Arab American cinema provides a more complex, realistic, and fluid representation of Arab American citizenship and the nuances of a transnational identity.Exploring a wide variety of films from each cinematic site, Mahdi traces the competing narratives of Arab American belonging - how and why they vary, and what's at stake in their circulation.
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Waleed F. Mahdi is assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma with joint affiliations in the Department of International and Area Studies and the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.

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Mahdi cleverly juxtaposes US, Egyptian, and Arab American cinematic representations of Arab belonging in America to enrich our understanding of cultural citizenship in the present day. Mahdi has written an exciting, original comparative analysis of how Arab Americans are portrayed in three genres: Hollywood cinema, Egyptian cinema, and Arab American cinema. . . .The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of how Othering is both constructed and challenged. Broad-ranging and sophisticated, this is an engaging, beautifully written analysis of the cultural production of Arab American identity in film, looking at examples from the US and the Middle East. A rich and detailed investigation of how cinematic images of Arab Americans have been forced to travel the globe to serve the agendas of others, and how they also yearn to be free.

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