Hollywood and the Plot of Generating Islamophobia through Penetration into the Unconsciousness

The struggle of Islam against oppression and its defending the rights of the oppressed seems too costly to the West. In recent years the wave of Islamic awakening which was influenced by the Islamic Revolution of Iran, made the global arrogant powers into learnt of the existence of Islam. Therefore, the global arrogant powers have tried to damage the validity and holy status of this heavenly religion and Muslim's identity in different ways, especially through cinema and film-making based on the world-famous Hollywood Cinema. Focusing on the unconscious and conditioning the mind, Hollywood appeals to audience's taste to accept the beliefs, values and ideals it pursues as a dominant discourse, and undermines the doctrines and ideologies which are not in line with the global arrogant powers interests. The present paper seeks to highlight the over-one-century enmity shown by the United States to Islam and Muslims and its use of Hollywood cinema for manipulating global audiences and gradually penetrating into the unconscious on a world scale. To this end, this paper, based on a semiotic study and content analysis, examines a set of the most known and selected movies about Islamophobia. It mainly focuses on Hollywood's practical use of the techniques of "association of meaning" and "conditioning" in generating Islamophobia.