Hollywood cinema and Islam in the context of clash of civilizations thesis

With the end of the Cold War, paradigms of the Cold War could not explain the emerging international environment. Therefore, Western authorities put forward various theories in order to elicit new order. One of those is Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilization" thesis. In his work, Huntington stated that with the end of the Cold War, basic element of the clashes was no longer ideological, instead economic and cultural. In this context, clashes would occur between civilization and religion would be the main source of clashes between civilizations. Huntington counted eight civilization as Western, Islam, Indian, Confucius, Latin, Japan, Ortdodox and Afrcian. Putting West in another place, he has seen Islam as the most confronting civilization with the West. He also alotted the large part of his work to the diffrences between the Western and Islam civilization. In the first chapter of this study, concept of civilization and clash of civilization thesis were emphasized and given coverage to concepts related with clash of civilization thesis. In the second chapter, information about historical background of the clash of civilization thesis were given. In the third chapter, from past to present evolvement of Hollywood cinema was addressed. In the last chapter, the movies Not Without My Daughter, Rules of Engagement, Rendition, The Kingdom, Traitor, Body of Lies, Sex and the City 2, American Sniper were adressed and analysed according to four dogmas of Orientalism in Edward Said's book "Orientalism". Accordingly, existence of the state of conflict between Western and Islam civilization mentioned in Huntington's work have been observed. It has been seen that civilization of Islam built as the adversary of the West have been deemed as other and created as enemy.