@article{ref1,
title="Manufacturing Islamophobia: rightwing pseudo-documentaries and the paranoid style",
journal="Journal of communication inquiry",
year="2015",
author="Salime, Zakia and Stein, Arlene",
volume="39",
number="4",
pages="378-396",
abstract="Rightwing organizations in the United States have produced and circulated a number of videos which exaggerate the threat Islamic militants pose to ordinary citizens in the West. These videos owe a great deal to the frames established two decades earlier in religious right campaigns against homosexuality. This article provides a textual analysis of these videos and their production, showing how they manifest &quot;heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy,&quot; which Richard Hofstadter characterized as the &quot;paranoid style.&quot; We term these films &quot;pseudo-documentaries&quot; because while they utilize some of the conventions of the documentary genre--claims to &quot;fairness and accuracy,&quot; the use of &quot;experts,&quot; and the incorporation of news footage, testimonies, and &quot;facts&quot;--they are produced by political interest groups and are expressly made to persuade and mobilize through distortion. A comparison of homophobic and Islamophobic videos reveals continuities in rightwing rhetoric, as well as strategic shifts, and indicates the emergence of an increasingly fragmented, pluralized, and privatized political sphere.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0196-8599",
doi="10.1177/0196859915569385",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859915569385"
}