Background
Shaheen, Jack George was born on September 21, 1935 in Pittsburgh. Son of Jack and Nazara (Jacob) Shaheen.
(revised and updated edition A groundbreaking book that d...)
revised and updated edition A groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" Arabs Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver screen, painstakingly makes his case that "Arab" has remained Hollywood's shameless shorthand for "bad guy," long after the movie industry has shifted its portrayal of other minority groups. In this comprehensive study of over one thousand films, arranged alphabetically in such chapters as "Villains," "Sheikhs," "Cameos," and "Cliffhangers," Shaheen documents the tendency to portray Muslim Arabs as Public Enemy #1--brutal, heartless, uncivilized Others bent on terrorizing civilized Westerners. Shaheen examines how and why such a stereotype has grown and spread in the film industry and what may be done to change Hollywood's defamation of Arabs.
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Shaheen, Jack George was born on September 21, 1935 in Pittsburgh. Son of Jack and Nazara (Jacob) Shaheen.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1957. Master of Arts, Pennsylvania State University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University Missouri, 1969.
Entertainment director, United States Special Superior vena cava syndrome, Berlin, Germany, 1960-1963; special programs director, University of California at Los Angeles, 1965-1967; assistant instructor mass communications, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1967-1969; professor mass communications, Southern Illinois U., Edwardsville, 1969-1994. Consultant Institute for International Research Inc., Washington, since 1986. Consultant middle east affairs Columbia Broadcasting System News, since 1994.
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( Dr. Shaheen, studying over 100 different popular entert...)
Member Fulbright Alumni Association, Popular Culture Association.
Married Bernice Marie Rafeedie, January 22, 1966. Children: Michael A., Michele L.