In 1984, David Lynch made a film version of the novel to critics’ dismay. Set in the distant future amid an interstellar dystopia, it is based on the 1965 science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert. Native Americans, African-Americans, Arabs, Asians, Latinx, Muslims, Africans – everyone on planet Earth is misrepresented for the simple reason that at the epicentre of Hollywood as an industry stands a factual, virtual, or fictive white narrator telling the world he is the measure of truth and wisdom, joy and entertainment.ĭune is now doing its bit of mis/representation with the latest visual panache and state-of-the-art digital bravura and virtuosity. It has made a lucrative business of deluding the world. It is time for a reality check and to come to terms with the fact that “Hollywood” as an abstraction is in the business of misrepresenting everyone.
Film critics particularly from the Arab and Muslim world are up in arms and back on their hobbyhorse of how Hollywood misrepresents them. There was only one radio station, Voice of Sharia, that broadcast propaganda and Islamic programming.The recent release of Dune: Part One (2021), an American science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve, has once again raised the vexing question of Hollywood mis/representation of Arabs, Muslims, and Islam. Ownership of a video player could lead to a public lashing. People caught watching television faced punishment, including having their set smashed. When the group previously ruled from 1996 to 2001, there was no Afghan media to speak of - they banned television, movies and most other forms of entertainment, deeming it immoral.
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The Taliban's guideline for TV networks comes after two decades of explosive growth for independent Afghan media under the Western-backed governments that ruled the country until August 15, when the Islamists regained power.ĭozens of television channels and radio stations were set up with Western assistance and private investment soon after the Taliban were toppled in 2001.ĭuring the past 20 years, Afghan television channels offered a wide range of programs - from an “American Idol” style singing competition to music videos, along with several Turkish and Indian soap operas. The new directive was widely circulated late Sunday on social media networks.ĭespite insisting they will rule more moderately this time around, the Taliban have already introduced rules for what women can wear at university, and beaten and harassed several Afghan journalists despite promising to uphold press freedoms. “These are not rules but a religious guideline,” ministry spokesman Hakif Mohajir told AFP.
It called for banning films or programs that were against Islamic and Afghan values. And the ministry asked the channels not to air films or programs in which the Prophet Mohammed or other revered figures are shown.įor the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.
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