•Geography
•Literature and the Arts
•The Religion of Islam
•Communal Identities and Ethnic Groups
•Agriculture and the Changing Village
•Cities and Urban Life
•Kinship, Marriage, and the Family
•Women and the Social Order
a.Explain what a stereotype is.
b.Write a paragraph commenting about the possible effects of stereotyping on individuals and society.
c.Continue writing your paper.
d.Make sure that you have noted the following sets of stereotypes:
i.Climate/region: What does the setting look like? Remember that the Middle East has enormous geographical and architectural diversity.
ii.Timeless/magical: Note that the current time blends with magical time and the distant past in the movie. Here it should be pointed out that in the original version of the film, which was to be released just after the first Gulf War, the city was called Baghdad; but because of the war, Baghdad was too "real" and the name of the city was changed to Aghrabah–a construct which in Arabic means "most strange."
iii.Race/foreignness
iv.Moral characteristics
v.Mixed exoticism: Note out-of-place elements like the monkey.
3.Write about the value judgments that underlie the use of these stereotypes in Aladdin.
a.Give examples of similar stereotypes of Middle Easterners or other non-Arab groups used in other commercial films or media.
b.Why do you think filmmakers resort to stereotypes in their films? Is this effective storytelling? In what ways? Does understanding how stereotyping is used "spoil" a movie? Why or why not?
4.Write a brief reaction of how you might now approach the rest of Aladdin or a similar film differently.
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