The Reluctant Islamophobes: Multimedia Dissensus in the Hollywood Premodern by Elena Furlanetto

“…In order to test this hypothesis, I focus on two films which explicitly champion diversity and aim to reverse the logics of Islamophobia by presenting tributes to Muslim culture or denunciations of Eurocentric discriminatory practices: Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora (2009) and Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (2005). …”
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