"Evil" Arabs in American popular film: orientalist fear

Icthyoid man: Arcimboldo's "The Water" (1566)

Orientalist fear

"The Exorcist" : assault on American confidence (1973)

"Rollover" : assault on the American economy (1981)

"Black Sunday" : the loss of frontier heroism (1976)

"Three Kings" : assault on victory culture (1999)

"Rules of Engagement" : attack from the multicultural front (2000)

"CNN's America Remembers" : the "real" attack (2002)

The "South Park" lesson and orientalist fear.