America's view of the East cinematically

This book presents a survey of the general perspective that the West holds towards the East, whether from a cultural, religious, or geographical angle. It explores - through analyzing a collection of films that addressed "the Other" in general and the East in particular - how this perspective was formed and evolved throughout history, from being a documentary and media-oriented view to a cinematic perspective. The goal here is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of this vision through the cinematic lens, which has always been characterized by bias and lack of neutrality towards the East, or even from the perspective of the "Global North" with its dominant economy towards the "Global South." In this context, we examine cinema in its various classifications: racial, regional, cultural, linguistic, and even intellectual. It does not aim to be a protest or anger, but a logical reaction to a distorted context, a caricatured image, and a continuous mechanism over decades targeting the East, the Middle East, Arabs, Muslims, and other cultures belonging to the Global South through stereotypical images presented by cinema. The content of the book's chapters offers a comprehensive and detailed view of how "the Other" sees us, how they think about us, how they want us to see ourselves, and what our own perspective towards them is. The stereotypical depiction of Arab characters remains relatively superficial in Western literature, cinema, or historical books.