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Cinema is now the primary generator of Muslim monster imagery in America

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Sep 20, 20261 min read

Cinema is now the primary generator of Muslim monster imagery in America

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Movies provided a vehicle for Muslim monsters to be displayed, and, I would argue, they continue to serve as the most dominant cultural force in the modern American milieu—a space in which Muslim monsters continue to be generated. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 35

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Cinema is now the primary generator of Muslim monster imagery in America
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Award-winning depictions of Muslim monsters are familiar, not exceptional, to Western audiences.
Cultural fields like literature and art sustain internalized social dispositions producing Muslim monsters
Fictional Muslim characters shape Americans' view of living Muslims as violent
Film Muslims speak gibberish because medieval monsters were denied human speech.
Literature, drama, art, and cinema sustain a habitus about Islam built on Muslim monsters
The authentic Muslim monsters in early cinema are grotesque, subhuman figures.
Sophia Rose Arjana — Muslims in the Western Imagination
Sophia Rose Arjana — Muslims in the Western Imagination

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Cinema is now the primary generator of Muslim monster imagery in America

Cinema is now the primary generator of Muslim monster imagery in America

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