Abstract
Edward Saids Orientalism reveals the functionality of the oriental in Western culture that the idea of European identity as a superior one in comparison with all the non-European peoples and cultures. There is in addition the hegemony of European ideas about the Orient, themselves reiterating European superiority over Oriental backwardness This idea can largely apply to the Hollywood films made in the Middle East. The representations on the orientals are extremely similar and biased. This paper aims to use The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008) and American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, 2014) to demonstrate that the East is artificially instructed by the West through unfolding the processes of othering.
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