Loading ...Terrence Malick: An Arab American’s Contribution to the Entertainment Industry:
n today’s highly politicized identity discussions around media, representation, and visibility within the arena of the Western entertainment industry valorized as the official and universal vessel of meaning-making, it is refreshing how unconcerned prolific filmmaker Terrence Malick (of Lebanese and Assyrian heritage through his father) is of the politics of identity markers. The calls for re-imagining Arab American representation in media are warranted after decades of fetishizing, otherizing, and villainizing.