SHARE WITH STUDENTS: Summer 2019 Course – GWS 290 – “The Middle East in Hollywood Movies” – open for registration!
This summer Dr. Nadine Naber will giving a course on The Middle East in Hollywood Movies course GWS 290.
This course explores portrayals of women, gender, and sexuality in the Middle East in Hollywood cinema, TV news, and comics. The course will trace themes that circulate in the U.S. media like the rich Arab oil sheik surrounded by harem-like belly dancers to the Arab terrorist surrounded by stereotypically "oppressed/veiled Muslim women. The course examines the connections between media images of gender and sexuality and the historical-political moment in which they are created and disseminated-- from European colonization of the Arab world to 9/11 and to the recent rise in white supremacy.