PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION (2021) 58(5), ISSN 1553 - 6939 Article Received: 22th November, 2020; Article Revised: 26th March, 2021; Article Accepted: 26th April, 2021 817 www.psychologyandeducation.net Portrayal Of Pakistan On The Silver Screen: A Critical Discourse Analysis Hafiz Ahmad Bilal 1 , Khalid Mahmood Zaman 2 , Dr Azhar Pervaiz 3 , Khizar Hayat 4 1 Associate Professor, Dept of English, University of Sargodha, PAK ahmadbilal.uos@gmail.com 2 Assistant Professor, Northern University, Noshehra, PAK zamankhan949@ymail.com 3 Assistant Professor, University of Sargodha, PAK sargodhian67@gmail.com 4 PhD Scholar, IER, University of the Punjab, Lahore, PAK khizar.sandrana783@yahoo.com ABSTRACT: Media is one of the most influential instruments of propaganda now a days. Countries, nations and organisations adopt this tool to influence the minds of the masses in favour or against some individual or group. The current study attempts to investigate the anti- Pakistan sentiment as depicted in the film media, mainly in the Hollywood movies. It is hypothesised that a hostile and biased image of Pakistan is portrayed and represented in Hollywood cinema. Under the guise and garb of entertainment, film industries have become propaganda tools to serve vested interests of the powers that invest in the industry to malign Pakistan and to portray a negative image of the country. To unearth the hidden motives and to deconstruct the meanings encoded in the dialogues of the movies against Pakistan, Fairclough’s 3 D model of critical discourse analysis is employed. The study examined five Hollywoo d movies (aired post 9/11), purposefully selected for the analysis. The dialogues pregnant with anti-Pakistan theme were chosen for the analysis. It was concluded that the movies are a deliberate attempt to represent Pakistan’s stereotypical image as a terr orist state. It was further revealed that the purpose behind the antagonistic portrayal of Pakistan is to mutilate its impression across the globe. The study is an eye-opener for the Pakistani viewers of Hollywood cinema and is an attempt to make them able to detect the invisible powers working under the garb of entertainment and to counter their propaganda by not getting influenced. Keywords: anti-Pakistan sentiment, Hollywood cinema, Fairclough, CDA 1. INTRODUCTION The present research aims at inspecting the negative representation of Pakistan in the Hollywood film media. After the incident of 9/11, the world has witnessed the opening of a new era that has contributed towards constructing new identities particularly of Muslim countries. The incident of 9/11 has been propagated to produce strong anti-Pakistan sentiment by the anti-Pakistan forces, and movies have been greatest instrument in this regard. Through the lens of anti-Pakistan sentiment, the masses of the world, particularly Americans are made to perceive Pakistan as the ‘other’, the concept of ‘othering’ is given by Spivak (1985). For Hegel, the dialectic relation between other and self is that of a master and a slave. In the words of Lister “Othering helps to define the self and to affirm identity” (Jensen, 2009). The construction of us/them dichotomy is maintained to show the ‘other’ different from ‘own self’. The same dichotomy of us/other has found its way in Hollywood movies that present a stereotypical image of Pakistan. The language of media can be scrutinized to disclose power structure, especially where language seems transparent and neutral. In recent days, media has gained a lot of power as a public discourse and its language can be explored to divulge its influence on the beliefs, prejudices, values, opinions and ideologies of the people. The two-way process exists between media discourse and power structures. The discourse of the media