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Can context trump content? Gary Delgado watches the siege to see if a racist movie can be prophetic. (To the Point).(film 'The Siege' that portrays all Arabs and Muslims as terrorists)
Can a significant change in political context change whether we judge a film to be racist? Almost four years ago, Twentieth Century Fox released The Siege, a 116-minute flick that features bomb attacks on U.S. soil by "Arab terrorists." Arab and Islamic organizations, including the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, launched protests against the movie, calling its images of Arabs and Muslims "inflamatory and stereotypical." Judith Gabriel reviewing the film in Al Jadid, an Arab cultural magazine based in Los Angeles, critiqued "not-so-subtle racism that lurked menacingly, familiarly, throughout the film."
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