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related but not interchangeable. Another example is the use of social stereotypes—a common contextual coefficient in documentary production and reception. This particular coefficient may or may not lead to the social impact of prejudice toward and

stereotypes of people ( Thomas and Johnston 1981 ) and experiences ( Bordwell 1985 ) to let viewers form simplified representations of the portrayed events. Thus, simplifications are deliberately used by moviemakers, either to help the audience comprehend a

a role for stereotyped conceptual structures that the perceiver deploys in order to identify what’s going on and fit that to a larger context. My only substantive comment on Joe and James’s useful analysis is to wonder whether the focus on verbal

followed in his footsteps. As a performer who refined the racist “coon” stereotype in early sound movies, Perry frequently resorted to eliciting humor through racialized disgust by means of exaggeratedly witless actions such as the one mentioned above; and

Robinson received from Zeffirelli does not excuse the portrayal of Monty in this episode as a sexual predator, a portrayal that perpetuates harmful stereotypes. Moreover, any ameliorating effect the allusions made by these episodes might have is undermined

: Stage Pictorialism and Early Film . New York : Oxford University Press . Bulgakowa , Oksana . 2005 . “ The ‘Russian Vogue’ in Europe and Hollywood: The Transformation of Russian Stereotypes through the 1920s .” The Russian Review 64 ( 2 ): 211

suggests a distant kinship to Turkish literary works such as Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’s Yaban (The Stranger, 1932). The novel portrays the experiences of a stereotypical Republican subject, an enlightened individual (typically a doctor, teacher, or

programming compares favorably to mainstream programming precisely because the mainstream is imagined as normative, and when the non-mainstream penetrates this normative sphere, it becomes constricted by stereotypical narratives. In the analysis of Dancing

represent certain stereotypes or archetypes, good and evil are clearly delineated, and characters are rarely shown performing repetitive or unmotivated tasks that would not contribute to their characterization or propel the unfolding story further. Classical

devastating periods in twentieth-century gay and transsexual history, and Dallas Buyers Club serves as a powerful reminder of the historical and social backgrounds against which mainstream films continue the hegemonic stereotyping of narratives and