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white privilege” (2010: 207). Further, white savior films may also reinforce negative attitudes about African Americans because the notion that the recipients of the savior’s kindness need to be saved naturalizes black stereotypes, particularly those

discusses sexual selection theory in order to further her argument that gender stereotypes and balance are not assumed in contemporary horror cinema. Psychologist Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is referenced for his concept of “emerging adults,” young persons who are

relevant event schemas. In this way, he emphasized a dynamic relationship between the flow of images on the screen and the knowledge activated to support comprehension. Like Russian formalism, he specified how learned, stereotypical patterns in the syuzhet

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

overcome developmental challenges of transforming fiction into reality ( 2011, 197 ). By contrast, Despina Kakoudaki (2014) views science-fictional developments in cybernetics and robotics as stereotypical, arguing they have very little to do with

relocating sand dunes in the Phi Phi Islands National Park, so as to achieve a perfectly stereotypical paradisal look. Consistent with activists’ predictions, the devastating effects of removing well-established natural defenses against erosion became evident