Abstract

After the end of Cold War, the USA became the only super power and there was no threat perception from outside, in other words no enemy anymore. In fact, throughout history the USA faced different threats, that is to say, enemies. The terrorist events experienced in America after the end of Cold War brought about that the new enemy was Middle Easterners. Accordingly, the place of cinema in postmodernism is very significant as it becomes the reflection of the zeitgeist and the mindset of the era in which the film is shot.

Highlights

  • The States appeal to the media to make their foreign policy decisions and their acts gain legitimacy

  • Deriving from the above facts, the aim of the study is to show whether there is a mutual relation between Hollywood and the U.S government or not and how the films contribute to the creation of the perception of threat from the perspective of postmodernism and during this process how the USA needs the Middle East to be seen as a threat especially after the end of the Cold War to recreate its identity and show its power especially in the presidential term of Bill Clinton

  • The West is the opposite of the Orient, which is something to be feared and controlled (Khatib, 2006). In this way Hollywood films create a misleading among people, especially Americans, to believe that all Middle Easterners or “Arabs are terrorists and that they do not value human life as much as we do” (Shaheen, 2001: 29)

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Introduction

The States appeal to the media to make their foreign policy decisions and their acts gain legitimacy. Deriving from the above facts, the aim of the study is to show whether there is a mutual relation between Hollywood and the U.S government or not and how the films contribute to the creation of the perception of threat from the perspective of postmodernism and during this process how the USA needs the Middle East to be seen as a threat especially after the end of the Cold War to recreate its identity and show its power especially in the presidential term of Bill Clinton. The West is the opposite of the Orient, which is something to be feared and controlled (Khatib, 2006) In this way Hollywood films create a misleading among people, especially Americans, to believe that all Middle Easterners or “Arabs are terrorists and that they do not value human life as much as we do” (Shaheen, 2001: 29). The negative images of the Middle Easterners as a threat are seen to be the reflection of the president’s policies of the era to recreate an identity and show the strength of America to the world (Deger, 2011)

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