Arabs and Muslims in the media : race and representation after 9/11 / / Evelyn Alsultany

• Autore: Alsultany Evelyn
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.6/970973
• Soggetto topico: Arabs on television; Muslims on television; Stereotypes (Social psychology) on television
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Challenging the Terrorist Stereotype -- 2. Mourning the Suspension of Arab American Civil Rights -- 3. Evoking Sympathy for the Muslim Woman -- 4. Regulating Sympathy for the Muslim Man -- 5. Selling Muslim American Identity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. Arabs and Muslims in the Media examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of “the enemy” during the War on Terror. Evelyn Alsultany explains that a new standard in racial and cultural representations emerged out of the multicultural movement of the 1990s that involves balancing a negative representation with a positive one, what she refers to as “simplified complex representations.” This has meant that if the storyline of a TV drama or film represents an Arab or Muslim as a terrorist, then the storyline also includes a “positive” representation of an Arab, Muslim, Arab American, or Muslim American to offset the potential stereotype. Analyzing how TV dramas such as West Wing, The Practice, 24, Threat Matrix, The Agency, Navy NCIS, and Sleeper Cell, news-reporting, and non-profit advertising have represented Arabs, Muslims, Arab Americans, and Muslim Americans during the War on Terror, this book demonstrates how more diverse representations do not in themselves solve the problem of racial stereotyping and how even seemingly positive images can produce meanings that can justify exclusion and inequality.
• Titolo autorizzato: Arabs and Muslims in the Media
• ISBN: 0-8147-2917-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814510903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical Cultural Communication