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As an example of how not to represent the Middle East, how about "The Sheltering Sky", which butchers Bowles' novel and "orientalizes" the indigenous people of North Africa (I am indebted for that insight to Professor Jeannette Bicknell, whose article on the film will appear in the next edition of Film and Philosophy). "For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy Daniel Shaw Professor of Philosophy and Film Lock Haven University Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw ________________________________ * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **