Developing a TV Drama for the Misrepresented: British Female Arab Actors

这个以实践为基础的创意项目调查了英国-阿拉伯演员在英国的生活经历，采用了跨学科的方法，包括批判性分析，访谈和自我民族志，以开发一个剧本，将挑战现有的故事。美国屏幕上的阿拉伯刻板印象的学术研究是成熟的，主要集中在全球政治上。对阿拉伯人在英国广播中的表现、阿拉伯演员表演这些表现的经验以及扮演这些角色对他们的影响的分析被忽视了。虽然有越来越多的文献在英国电影和电视劳动力的多样性，代表性和访问，英国-阿拉伯经验的位置，无论是在行业内和一般，也是有限的。因此，本项目将通过以下方式解决这一缺失：a）调查英国电影和电视中历史上普遍存在的阿拉伯人形象; B）探索英国-阿拉伯演员与他们预期扮演的角色之间的关系; c）编写一部电影剧本，弥合对表现形式的分析与英国演员的生活经历之间的差距。结合对英国电影和电视中阿拉伯人的现有角色和表现的分析，与英国-阿拉伯演员的采访以及对我自己作为英国-阿拉伯演员的经历的自我反思，将为植根于英国-阿拉伯演员，特别是女演员的实际生活的电视剧系列的写作奠定基础。电影剧本将戏剧化他们所面临的个人和职业挑战。在这样做的过程中，剧本将开发新的方式，通过电视剧表达英国-阿拉伯经验，讲述关于他们的新故事，并增加对联合王国电影和电视行业内代表性、多样性和就业机会等更普遍问题的理解。

This creative practice-based project investigates the lived experiences of British-Arab actors in the UK, employing an interdisciplinary approach involving critical analysis, interviews and autoethnography to develop a screenplay that will challenge existing stories.The academic study of Arab stereotypes on US screens is well-established and has focused primarily on global politics. The analysis of the representation of Arabs in British broadcasting, the experiences of Arab actors performing these representations and the impact that playing these roles has upon them have been neglected. Although there is a growing literature on diversity, representation and access in the UK film and television workforce, the position of the British-Arab experience, both within the industry and in general, has also been limited. This project will therefore address this absence by a) investigating the images of Arabs that have prevailed historically in British film and television, by b) exploring the relationship between British-Arab actors and the roles they have been expected to perform, and by c) writing a screenplay that will bridge the gap between the analysis of the representations and the lived experiences of the British actors. Combining the analysis of existing roles and representations of Arabs in British film and television, with interviews with British-Arab actors and an element of self-reflection on my own experiences as a British-Arab actor will lay the basis for the writing of a TV drama series rooted in the actual lives of British-Arab actors, and female actors in particular. The screenplay will dramatize the personal and professional challenges they face. In doing so, the script will develop new ways to articulate British-Arab experience through television drama, tell new kinds of stories about them and add to the understanding of more general questions of representation, diversity and employment opportunities within the UK film and television industry.