Hollywood Harems (1999)

A documentary taking critical aim at Hollywoods abiding fascination with and fantasies about all things eastern Juxtaposing film clips from the 20s through the 80s HOLLYWOOD HAREMS explores the organization of gender race and sexuality in Hollywoods portrayal of the exotic east an indiscriminate fusion of things Arab Persian Chinese and Indian In abridging cultural plurality and difference these technicolor fantasies have worked both to shape and reinforce often derogative assumptions about peoples of the east while at the same time reinscribing the moral spiritual and cultural supremacy of the AngloEuropean west