Nonfiction
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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A documentary taking critical aim at Hollywood's abiding fascination with and fantasies about all things eastern. Juxtaposing film clips from the 20s through the 80s, HOLLYWOOD HAREMS explores the organization of gender, race, and sexuality in Hollywood's portrayal of the exotic east an indiscriminate fusion of things Arab, Persian, Chinese and Indian. In abridging cultural plurality and difference, these technicolor fantasies have worked both to shape and reinforce often derogative assumptions about peoples of the east while at the same time reinscribing the moral, spiritual, and cultural supremacy of the Anglo-European west. Official Selection at the **Arab and Iranian Film Festival**
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Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 1999
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English