Evil Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear

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Index Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations and appear first in index entries. Afghanistan: Kabul, 231, 240; Mazar-iSharif , 240; and new normalcy, 240–241; and Taliban, 231–232, 235, 237, 240– 241, 243, 245; Tora Bora, 241; and U.S. soldiers, 264n7; and veil, 106, 231, 240 African Americans (blacks), 3, 169, 171–172, 257n5 ambivalence, 45, 48–50, 54, 56, 86 America Remembers: 204; Amanpour in, 231–232, 237, 240–241, 247; Arce in, 212– 213, 220–222, 226–227, 231–232; John Ashcroft in, 238, 244; Blitzer in, 229, 232; Bloomberg in, 210; Boettcher in, 238; Brown in, 219, 221–222, 230–231, 236– 237, 242, 245–246; Candiotti in, 242; Card in, 215–216; Dick Cheney in, 225, 244; CIA in, 240; Cohen in, 233, 246; discussion of, 23, 28–29, 202–247, 268n9; Dobbs in, 235–236; FAA in, 214; FBI in, 242; Garrett in, 215–216, 225; Giuliani in, 227–228, 234, 236–237; Grasso in, 235– 236; Greenfield in, 227, 234; Gupta in, 242, 247; Hemmer in, 246; Hirschkorn in, 212–213, 219–220; John King in, 217, 225, 229, 232, 234, 238; Larry King in, 210–211, 218; Lin in, 210–213, 219; Mattingly in, 224; McIntyre in, 217; Meserve in, 244; Mutawakel in, 232; NYSE in, 235–236; O’Brien in, 214, 238; Powell in, 237; Ridge in, 244; Robertson in, 231– 232; Rumsfeld in, 240, 245; Savidge in, 238, 244; Snow in, 217, 219, 229–230; Spann in, 240, 245; Thompson in, 242; Zahn in, 202, 227, 231, 236, 242, 245 Arabic: and audience, Orientalist audience, 39, 146, 193; in Black Sunday, 102–103, 112; in Exorcist, 47; in Rules, 179, 189–193, 196; in Three Kings, 139, 146 Arabs: in the 1970s, 7–21; and anthrax, 243; and audience, 80, 225; and aural threat, 178; and bin Laden, 236, 245; and Black Sunday, 104, 107, 110, 112–117, 121–122; Blandford on, 142; and G. W. Bush administration, 243; as business immature, 84, 91; and capitalism, 60, 86, 88, 91; and Capitol Building, 202; in cartoons, 11, 14, 17, 19, 25, 259n50, 260n76; and clothing, 10, 84–86, 189, 237; and CNN, 240, 246; and communism , 91; and democracy, 83; as demon, 30, 38, 41, 43–50, 52–57, 171; desert, 15, 17, 81–82; and economic depression, 69; as enemy, 81, 140, 158, 176, 182, 197, 202, 208, 225, 235–237, 239–240, 243–244, 246; and entrepreneurial myth, 68, 70; as ethnic imaginary, 8, 25; as ‘‘evil,’’ 253 (see also ‘‘evil’’ Arabs); and Exorcist, 42, 45, 57, 91, 263n50; fear of, 6–7, 10, 13, 18, 23, 80, 232–233, 235–236, 238, 244; and feminine, 85, 122–123, 155; and film, 2–3, 7, 21, 125; and Friedkin, 178; and frontier myth, 94; and gaze, 38, 40–41, 88, 96–97, 176–177, 189, 238, 263n50; and Ground Zero, 239; as hero, 245; hijackers, 202, 236, 238; Hollywood, 2–3, 30, 202; and ideology or myth, 5, 21, 125, 138, 161, 207–208, 233, 243; and illusion, 2, 27; in images, 171; and IMF, 10; as Indians, 110; invisibility of, 74; as Iraqi soldiers, 139; in Iraq prologue, 57–58; and Islam, 288 ‘‘evil’’ arabs in american popular film 18; and Israel, 11–14, 16, 94, 110, 116, 118, 122; kit, 2–3, 30, 85, 257n4, 261n4; land and landscape, 25, 82, 101–102, 110, 135, 150, 177, 192, 266n26; and language, 41, 243; McAlister on, 5; and Middle East, 5, 8, 10, 21, 23, 27, 45; and mimicry, 243; as monsters, 224; and multiculturalism, 188, 207; and narrative, 161; in National Geographic, 37–38; and new normalcy, 243–244; Newsweek on, 17; oil, 10–11, 13–18, 58, 83, 86, 134, 254; oil embargo, 11, 13–16, 25, 94, 260n72; and OPEC, 18, 260n76; and Orientalism, 5–6, 244; and Orientalist fear, 23–25, 57, 93, 125; and Orientalist Hell, 58; and Orientalist project, 7, 23; Palestinian as enemy, savage, 96, 101, 122; and paradigmatic structure, 70; and Pentagon, 202; and place, 82–83; and prejudice, 2–4, 7–8, 27, 247; and Rollover, 68–70, 75–76, 79– 80, 82–83, 87–91, 117; and Rules, 170–171, 192; and/as savage, 96, 110–111, 113, 116, 122–123, 134, 138, 140; and September 11, 202, 204, 235; Shaheen on, 2–3, 30, 85, 161; and shooting, 118–121, 152, 155, 181– 183, 200, 239–240; and sneak or surprise attack, 202, 228; and...