Tunisian director Ferid Boughedir addressed Hollywood’s depiction of the Middle East at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
Middle Eastern cinema is fighting to combat cliché’s around Arabs and Muslims generated by Hollywood, according to a panel at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
The panel, titled Spotlight on Arab Directors’ First Films, was asked if there was concern about the negative representation of people from the Middle East in Us films.
Tunisian director Ferid Boughedir, whose 1990 debut Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces is being screened at the festival, responded: “When we make a film we sometimes try to restore truth… One of our jobs is to fight against cliché and stereotypes.
“Previously, the enemy in Hollywood films was communism - the ‘Red Scare’. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a new enemy – the ‘Green Scare’.
“The villain who used to be a bad Russian is now the bad Arab or the bad Muslim...
Middle Eastern cinema is fighting to combat cliché’s around Arabs and Muslims generated by Hollywood, according to a panel at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
The panel, titled Spotlight on Arab Directors’ First Films, was asked if there was concern about the negative representation of people from the Middle East in Us films.
Tunisian director Ferid Boughedir, whose 1990 debut Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces is being screened at the festival, responded: “When we make a film we sometimes try to restore truth… One of our jobs is to fight against cliché and stereotypes.
“Previously, the enemy in Hollywood films was communism - the ‘Red Scare’. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a new enemy – the ‘Green Scare’.
“The villain who used to be a bad Russian is now the bad Arab or the bad Muslim...
- 10/29/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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