T.V.’s Promised Land
Wednesday, January 21
7:00 PM
Hooked on Colfax
3215 E. Colfax Ave, Denver
$5 donation and/or 1 hour volunteer

Disney’s Aladdin, Indiana Jones.., Warner Brothers’ cartoons of crazed Middle Eastern villains, international terrorists… These are America’s pop culture depictions of Arabs and Muslims. With T.V.’s Promised Land, director Nicholas Dembowski creates a clever montage of found footage from Hollywood movies, cable news networks, European news broadcasts, American Westerns, etc. The accumulated evidence powerfully asserts that Western media has long demonized a catch-all “Arab/Muslim world” via selective coverage and dehumanizing imagery that boosts the “good vs. evil” rhetoric of politicians and pundits like George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Bill O’Reilly. By offering no narration or other commentary of its own, T.V.’s Promised Land lets news outlets, Hollywood and politicians incriminate themselves.