When it comes to ideology, there are three elements that should be linked to that topic. The first one is that ideologies always come as a set or a chain and the order placement of this set affect the notion itself. Second, we unconsciously speak with already existed ideologies. Thus, our statements are formed by such ideologies not the other way round. Lastly, the statements of ideologies we make appear to be authentic due to the reflective image of us in them (Hall, 1990).
According to Hall (2019), mass media shapes and frames the ideologies about race in which it plants a certain image of a certain ethnicity in the minds of people. Arabs in Hollywood movies, thus, are given the stereotypical image as terrorists, ignorants, perverts, people who live in the deserts and many other negative traits (Shaheen, 2003).
References:
Hall, S. (1990). The Whites of Their Eyes: racist ideologies and the media. In Alvarado, M., and Thompson, J., (eds) The Media Reader (pp. 89-93). Retrieved from: http://www.appstate.edu/~hallcl/READING%20ASSIGNMENTS/3534%20wk8- stuarthall.PDF
Shaheen, J. G. (2003). Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 588(1), 171–193. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716203588001011
Xiaoyue Zhang 