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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Stereotypical Depictions"”.
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Truly An Awesome Spectacle: Gender Performativity And The Alienation Effect In Angels In America
… Kushner's two-part play Angels in America uses stereotypical depictions of gay men to deconstruct traditional gender dichotomies. In this thesis, I argue that Kushner has created a continuum of gender performativity to deconstruct these traditional gender dichotomies, thereby empowering the …
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I've been dressing up like a man: An ideological criticism of "Transparent"
… frequently relies on underdeveloped and often stereotypical depictions of LGBTQ+ characters, does not display LGBTQ+ actors in major roles, and often reinforces dominant ideologies such as heteronormativity and hegemonic masculinity in its identification. As a result, this series ultimately is …
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Video Games, Influence, and Identification: The Perpetuation of Culture Through Digital Worlds
… to destructive actions. Many groups suffer from stereotypical depictions in video games, but one particular group under threat from the video game industry in the current political climate of the United States are Hispanic and Latino populations and cultures. If video games have the power to …
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Silence, Power, and Mexicans in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark
… This is quite different from her contemporaries’ stereotypical depictions of minorities. To include immigrants in a modern novel was avant-garde and radical subject matter; and presenting a realistic, likeable Mexican character was unheard of because the colonized and immigrants were largely …
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“Good Guys Do Rape”: An Examination of College Student Perceptions of Sexual Assault Perpetrators
… of sexual violence, which often represents stereotypical rape scenarios. Many stereotypical depictions of perpetrators tend to be centered around individuals who are strangers, mentally ill, lonely, with poor or impoverished upbringing. How perpetrators and victims are depicted impact the …
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Male Subjectivity and Twenty-First Century German Cinema: Gender, National Idenity, and the Problem of Normalization
… German hegemonic masculinity and falls back on stereotypical depictions of a violent, Muslim Other. Finally, in Chapter 5, I explore current counter-filmmaking and the ways in which it can revive questions of self-consciousness. In reading Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band, 2009) …
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Alcoholism on the American Stage: De-Stigmatizing Socially Constructed Depictions of the Alcoholic through Performance
… dependency in relationship to problematic depictions that have appeared on the American stage. It examines plays that perpetuate stigmas as well as plays that seek to subvert stigmas and stereotypical depictions as a means of creating avenues for discourse. This study asks how we, as …
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Transgressive matriarchs: an exploration of female agency and resistance in South African telenovelas
… whether acts of transgression disrupt existing depictions of the matriarchal figure onscreen. Drawing on the works of Sisonke Msimang, Pumla Gqola and Sabine Binder, specifically their analyses of the iconography surrounding Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, this paper interprets the two Black female …