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Todd Green’s book The Fear of Islam is a great overview of Islamophobia’s workings. While it does not go completely in depth into the various ways Islamophobia work, I think his book is great at giving basic explanations to work off of. His chapter, “Muslims in the Media and at the Movies” is one of the few places American Sniper is mentioned in any academic writings. This is mostly due to the fact that American Sniper is a very recent film. However, Green’s work draws vivid comparisons to other films about the way the public’s ideas of Muslims are formed through the way media depicts them. He includes case studies on news and film depictions. This particular article is useful in understanding contemporary examples of Islamophobia in film. …show more content…
In the meta-film in Tarantino’s movie I saw reflections of American Sniper and thought that these connections between a fake propaganda film and a non-propaganda, Oscar-nominated film were important to point out the questionable logic behind

Kyle, Chris, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. New York: W. Morrow, 2014. Chris Kyle’s autobiography is a window into what the actual man portrayed by Bradley Cooper thought of his life and accomplishments. The schism between the representations is important, in order to understand the nuances of the films representations of Muslims. The differences between actual reports from Kyle and the way things get played out in the movie show what the screenwriter and director think they need to put into a film to give it merit

Lean, Nathan Chapman, and John L. Esposito. "Monsters Among Us: A History of Sowing Fear in America." In The Islamophobia Industry How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims. 16-40. London: Pluto Press,

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