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The Discursive Representation of Islam and Muslims in Movies
Abstract
September 11 has changed the world we live in. Justifications and commentaries have been a revival of the East/West Orientalist binarism. Movies on September 11 and the subsequent Iraq War have continued to follow the same discourse, first lending themselves as conveyors of knowledge and later passing their Orientalism under a guise of art. The selected movies are Paul Greengrass's United 93, Peter Markle's Flight 93, David Priest's Portraits of Courage, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, and Peter Berg's The Kingdom. The subject matter of the movies discussed in this chapter focuses on September 11 and the subsequent Iraq War for being the major recent historical events which are continually depicted as an inherent East/West conflict. It largely shapes today's perception of the world or in other terms creates a sense of a new perception today despite the continuity of the same Orientalist binarism that has always been there.
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