Hollywood has historically vilified Arabs and Muslims on screen. [fact]
See Jack G. Shaheen, The TV Arab (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press, 1984), for an analysis of damaging representations of Arabs, Muslims, and Middle Easterners on television and film through 1984. For a more recent study by Shaheen, see Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2014).
XREF: Relates to studies of media representation and orientalism in popular culture.
Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 674