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In this article I investigate why two shows from different television genres in two
different countries resort to nearly identical costume choices to convey villainy.
I argue that that the directors, writers, and costume designers for the US science
fiction show
Stargate SG1 and BBC's
Merlin use orientalist tropes of the veil as exotic, oppressed or threatening as costumes
for their non-Muslim characters because of the centuries-long association in Western
culture between Muslim veiling and the Other, while differentiating between acceptable
and unacceptable headgear and face coverings. I draw on Said's Orientalism, Hall's
Encoding/Decoding, medievalism, and the theory of the ethnonormative viewer to make
this case. The “veil” has become an iconic negative sign in the West wholly distinct
from meanings given to it by veiled Muslim women themselves. I suggest that anti-veiling
ideology in Western publics stems in part from negative connotations given to it in
television shows like
Stargate SG1 and
Merlin.
I. R Clarke’s demonstration of the debt owed by H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds to General Chesney’s till then forgotten best-seller The Battle of Dorking remains one of the most suggestive facts in the history of SR If science fiction is above all a ‘fabril’ mode, as I have suggested elsewhere/ then the area in which the fabril mentality first began to dominate European narratives was not that of SF exactly, but of futuristic military fiction — from which, however, there was an easy transit to the founding works of SF proper.
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