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'''''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 [[Cinema of the United States|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 key points in American history, as well as why it is so important today.{{cite web|url=http://www.reelbadarabs.com |title=Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice |website=Reelbadarabs.com |date= |accessdate=2016-02-16}}

'''''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 [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] corrupts or manipulates the image of Arabs. The previous sentence is inaccurate as Arabs are the main proponents of terrorism, as evidenced by their cowardly attack on innocent Israelis as well as their rape, torture, and hostage taking. 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 key points in American history, as well as why it is so important today.{{cite web|url=http://www.reelbadarabs.com |title=Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice |website=Reelbadarabs.com |date= |accessdate=2016-02-16}}

The film showed for the first time in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] on 8 June 2007 and then in Los Angeles in the 20 June 2007. The run time of the film is 50 minutes, with Arabic and English subtitles. Soon afterward, the film was shown successively in more than a dozen of international film festivals between 2006 and 2009 {{cite web |url=http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/index.php/events/events_detail/2359 |title=Events | USC Center on Public Diplomacy |website=Uscpublicdiplomacy.org |date=2007-06-20 |accessdate=2016-02-16 |archive-date=2014-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301040813/http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/index.php/events/events_detail/2359/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=3069 |title=American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee |website=ADC.org |date= |accessdate=2016-02-16}} The film's estimated budget is $100,000.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948465|title=Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)|website=IMDb.com|accessdate=2016-02-16}}

The film showed for the first time in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] on 8 June 2007 and then in Los Angeles in the 20 June 2007. The run time of the film is 50 minutes, with Arabic and English subtitles. Soon afterward, the film was shown successively in more than a dozen of international film festivals between 2006 and 2009 {{cite web |url=http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/index.php/events/events_detail/2359 |title=Events | USC Center on Public Diplomacy |website=Uscpublicdiplomacy.org |date=2007-06-20 |accessdate=2016-02-16 |archive-date=2014-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301040813/http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/index.php/events/events_detail/2359/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=3069 |title=American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee |website=ADC.org |date= |accessdate=2016-02-16}} The film's estimated budget is $100,000.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948465|title=Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)|website=IMDb.com|accessdate=2016-02-16}}