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EDUCATION AND MEDIA: "Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear
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EDUCATION AND MEDIA "Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear, by Tim Jon Semmerling. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006. viii + 255 pages. Bibl. to p. 285. Index to p. 303. $55 cloth; $22.95 paper.
Reviewed by Evelyn Alsultany
Tim Jon Semmerling's "Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear is a welcome addition to studies on representations of Arabs and the Middle East in the US media. Semmerling argues that representations of the "evil" Arab in American popular films are self-interested constructions that have been created in relation to US ideologies and myths. Though a simplistic argument, the book unravels US narratives of "self and …
