Reel Bad Arabs By Jack Shaheen Anthology Main Idea and Basis for Argument repeated negative stereotyping of Arabs in Hollywood films and other media has created a culture of unquestioning acceptance of those stereotypes Survey of more than 900 films and TV shows from the beginning of Hollywood s film industry to contemporary films The Stereotypes The Sheik 1 rich pursuing power wealth very interested in Western women may also be a good Westerner in disguise The Maidens 2 mute erotic subservient belly dancers femme fatales out to get the Western and British heroes Queens princesses 3 Egyptians Violent towards Westerner and Israelis poverty stricken Cleopatra mummies and magical curses Palestinians 4 terrorists who are against Israel and the West films from the 1980s and 1990s Ignorance not all Arabs are Muslim and not all Muslims are Arabs cultural differences from country to country Just because Arabis is their common language does not guarantee similarities from one country to the other ex Cultural and linguistic differences between US Aus tralia and the UK Persistence News and other popular culture reinforces these stereotypes Screenwriters today grew up watching these stereotypical images and continue the tradition Conflict creates stereotypes events 1940s foundation of Israeli and Arab Israeli wards of 1948 1967 and 1973 1973 oil mbargo ride of dictators Mummar Qaddafi Suddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeni Two Gulf Wards Combating Stereotypes Arab Americans and Muslim Americans should have an organized group to lobby Hollywood to stop relying on stereotypes and start making films with realistic charac ters White Privilege Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack By Peggy McIntosh Anthology White Privilege it is easier to be white Examples being white not only puts you at an advantage but others at a disadvantage racism active individual acts not invisible systems of racial dominance unearned assets which are meant to remain oblivious I can speak in public without putting my race on trial I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without others suspecting that I got it because of my race The Film School By John Belton The New Wave Cinematique Francaise Henri Langlois and the French Five Cinema Notebook film journal watch film talk and argue about film write passionately about them The Auteur Theory Directors as Stars New Wave Explosion of film by the first time directors new form of apprenticeship combination of genres high and low film woven into a new cinematic tapestry Andrew Sarris The American Cinema 1968 directors authors of the motion pictures encouraged americans to look at their cinema infatuation of the french five with american directors makes american research into current past hollywood a necessity Retrospective american critics become film directors Training ground Rise of Film Schools collapse of studio system brings new talent to hollywood film becomes component of liberal arts generation of film smart moviegoers films alternate media allusions to earlier films pepper movies directed by america s new wave The Color of Money youth and film economics 1960s 1970s popular and low budget films younger audiences major studios in decline Roger Corman School master of exploitation films cheaply made all genres Hopper Bogdanovich Coppola and Allen Proteges cause shift in Hollywood films genre gangster hot rod sci fi monster horror Exploitation on a grade scale low budget subjects get big budget treatment new film release pattern television radio print media References Meaning and Post modernism The art of allusion replication BUT innovation modeled after classics producers are idols of young directors example Spielberg the next disney Hook The Color Purple E T Post Modern Case Study Taxi Driver ALIENATED INDIVIDUAL anti hero exposes contradiction of 1970s America Vietnam Watergate Ronald Reagan postmodern artist convey incoherence that is social cultural reality of contempo rary experience primary obstacle saying something that has not been already said rescuer or psychopath Reagan Years Reassurance Comfort Comics Nostalgia A return to innocence less troubled times reap rewards american relative sociopolitical innocence Raiders of the Lost Ark Clear cut distinctions Socioeconomic emerging of Post modernity Psychologically complex Scorsese Psychologically non complex Lucas Spielburg Back in time 1980s nostalgic craze for 50 s 60 s music fashion lifestyles everything old is new again emerging identity of america is changing film s contradictory impulses The Reagan Years Other Characteristics in the 1980s conservative films Rambo wins Vietnam War rugged individualism rules muscle men fetishization of male body status of density examples Rocky Indiana Jones Rambo new filmmakers product of new culrural experience Film school Not movie brats did not grow up on 1950s film but television sitcoms Film Students want to be Spielbergs Coppolas or Scorseses New Techniques for exploitations of marketing Hollywood looks to the future cable syndication Hollywood tradition dissipates each film in aesthetic vacuum Feminism The Family and The New Mediated Maternalism By Angela McRobbie Neoliberalism removed government sponsored programs to help single moms scholars use this term to describe shift of change within the 1980s shrinking the government lowering taxes so people can keep more of their money rhetoric of individuality dismantling welfare problems privatization deregulation market driven solutions to social and economic problems Impacted women particularly single moms Neoliberalism and Feminism Development of feminism Transformation of feminism in the neoliberal context 1960s and 1970s reaction to patriarchy liberated women sexually and economically independent development of middle class mother balances career sexual life family life heterosexual femininity consumer developed simultaneously with modern feminism neoliberal mindset ultimately co opted feminism this is evident in the ideal of the middle class working mother Results middle class women have more responsibilities than ever slave to her lifestyle economic necessities two income family required for middle class lifestyle what about women that cant participate no sympathy for single moms no support network for single moms equally trapped socio economically portrayed as welfare queens racially coated Gender as Social Structure Theory Wrestling with Activism By Barbara T Risman Barbara Risman believes sociologist have a
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