Hollywood Easterns fused rescue narrative with the need for white masculine saviors

Evidence

Hollywood Easterns often feature a white victim who is threatened or violated by a Muslim villain and eventually is rescued by a white hero. In addition to the obvious appeal of the rescue narrative, these films are examples of colonial and neo-colonial discourse, communicating the need for white masculinity to save the day. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 616

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s thesis on how the West manufactures the Muslim as threat to justify its own intervention and valor.