Hollywood’s Negative Representations Of Arabs And Muslims Vis-à-vis The Increase Of Xenophobia And Islamophobia In The American Society

Résumé: Abstract This research paper studies the relationship that links the American political culture and public opinion through mass media particularly Hollywood. The American film industry is the greatest achievements in the modernized world which is capable of shaping public opinion via entertainment. By releasing hundreds of movies every year, Hollywood is creating the American Culture Supremacy and rising ethnocentrism. In the opposite, Hollywood’s stigmas of undermining the “Other” is taking place by perpetuating stereotypes and portraying the other cultures as primitive. The representations of minorities in Hollywood illustrative movies were to a far extent distorted, and the fact about them was obliterated. For many years, Hollywood movies is portraying minorities particularly Arabs and Muslims extravagantly in negative depictions eventually to part of rising Xenophobia and Islamophobia.

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