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
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Andreas Baranowski and Heiko Hecht
Esilda Luku
stereotypical image of concentration camp prisoners. These include a photograph showing the deportation of Polish Jews, a mass grave, a prisoner, a barracks, and the entrance to Auschwitz. History 8 features three pictures with reference to the Holocaust in a
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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Catalin Brylla and Mette Kramer
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
Meglio di ieri
Educational Films, National Identity and Citizenship in Italy from 1948 to 1968
Anne Bruch
stereotype that lasted until the late 1980s and consisted in the idea that Italy was an economically efficient industrial nation, made up of industrious and modest men who only cared for their own families and their Italian fatherland. Figure 1 Yesterday: War
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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Early Modern England’s Girlhood Discourse and Indigenous Girlhood in the Dominion of Canada (1684-1860)
Haidee Smith Lefebvre
2002: 178 )! At a time when narrative conventions cast most heroines in roles closely attached to family and motherhood, when most young women were stereotyped in similar ways—chiefly ending up as brides—Winona is detestable and dishonorable. She
Indigenous Girls in Rural Mexico
A Success Story?
Mercedes González de la Rocha and Agustín Escobar Latapí
.” Children’s regular school attendance has become the best way to secure an income in the present (through cash transfers) and, at the same time, higher school achievements as a tool for the future. Paradoxically, women’s disadvantages—associated with gender-stereotyped
“I’m No Donna Reed”
Postfeminist Rhetoric in Christian At-Home Daughterhood Texts
Elizabeth Shively
daughters’ primary role at home; in fact she jokes, “I’m no Donna Reed” when it comes to her own homemaking. The joking reference to Reed, whose American television show is synonymous with the saccharine, selfless, 1950s housewife stereotype, suggests that
Thebes Troutman as Traveling Tween
Revising the Family Story
Margaret Steffler
marked by “scars, faded hickeys and plaster cast” (2008: 208), works in an aggressive way, carving words into the dashboard and creating a bloody mannequin head entitled “This Boy is Obviously Dying” (178). Thebes, filling a more stereotypical female role
Unequal Education in Preschool
Gender at Play
Jessica Prioletta
.4.676 Cannella , Gaile Sloan . 1997 . Deconstructing Early Childhood Education: Social Justice and Revolution . New York : Peter Lang Publishing . Cherney , Isabelle D. , and Jessica Dempsey . 2010 . “ Young Children’s Classification, Stereotyping and
Girls’ Work in a Rural Intercultural Setting
Formative Experiences and Identity in Peasant Childhood
Ana Padawer
carried and had also learned how her father used a homemade tool (“he uses this to measure”) to align the furrows. Far from the stereotypical images of children engaged in child labor, the Estrella children climbed trees, picked fruit and vegetables that