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Framing Muslims : Stereotyping and Representation After 9/11.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061149
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Framing MuslimsDDC classification:
  • 305.6/97091821
LOC classification:
  • HM1096 .M67 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Muslims and the Nation-State: The Politics of Stereotyping -- 2. Muslims, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Normalization and Difference -- 3. Representing the Representatives: The Limits of Cultural Identity -- 4. Muslims in a Media Ghetto: The Anthropological Impulse in Realist Film and Docudrama -- 5. Troubling Strangers: Race, Nation, and the "War on Terror" in Television Th rillers -- 6. Performing beyond the Frame: Gender, Comedy, and Subversion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: In Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin dissect how stereotypes that depict Muslims as an inherently problematic presence in the West are constructed, deployed, and circulated in the public imagination, producing an immense gulf between representation and a considerably more complex reality.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Muslims and the Nation-State: The Politics of Stereotyping -- 2. Muslims, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Normalization and Difference -- 3. Representing the Representatives: The Limits of Cultural Identity -- 4. Muslims in a Media Ghetto: The Anthropological Impulse in Realist Film and Docudrama -- 5. Troubling Strangers: Race, Nation, and the "War on Terror" in Television Th rillers -- 6. Performing beyond the Frame: Gender, Comedy, and Subversion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin dissect how stereotypes that depict Muslims as an inherently problematic presence in the West are constructed, deployed, and circulated in the public imagination, producing an immense gulf between representation and a considerably more complex reality.

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