| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Part I: Understanding Stereotypes -- Chapter 1: Prologue -- 1.1 The Context -- 1.1.1 Documentary and Society -- 1.1.2 Stigma -- 1.1.3 Stereotypes -- 1.2 The Scope -- 1.2.1 Objectives -- 1.2.2 For Whom Is the Book Intended? -- 1.3 The Methodology -- 1.3.1 My Positionality -- 1.3.2 Stereotypes and Spectatorship -- 1.4 The Structure -- References -- Chapter 2: Why Do Stereotypes Exist? -- 2.1 Introduction: Social Identity -- 2.2 Social Categorisation -- 2.3 Stereotypes -- 2.4 Stereotype Properties |
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2.5 Bottom-up and Top-down Stereotyping -- 2.6 Stereotype Activation and Application -- 2.7 Consequences of Stereotypes -- 2.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Narrativising the Other -- 3.1 Introduction: Mental and Media Stereotypes -- 3.2 Folk Psychology -- 3.3 Documentary Narratives -- 3.4 Othering Discourses -- 3.5 Othering in Documentary Narratives -- 3.6 Social Distance -- 3.7 False Empathy and Hyperempathy -- 3.8 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Analysing Stereotypes -- Chapter 4: Types of Others -- 4.1 Introduction: Classifying Media Stereotypes -- 4.2 The Primitive Other |
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4.3 The Incapable Other -- 4.4 The Amoral Other -- 4.5 The Victimised Other -- 4.6 The Extra-capable Other -- 4.7 Additive Combinations of Others -- 4.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The OIMDA Model -- 5.1 Introduction: A Body of Media Texts -- 5.2 The OIMDA Model -- 5.3 Outgroup -- 5.4 Ingroup -- 5.5 Social Wrong -- 5.6 Media Sampling -- 5.7 Media Analysis -- 5.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: The OIMDA Model: Blindness Case Study -- 6.1 Introduction: Context -- 6.2 Outgroup -- 6.3 Ingroup -- 6.4 Social Wrong -- 6.5 Media Sampling -- 6.6 Media Analysis: Narrative Stereotypes |
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6.6.1 Plot Structures -- 6.6.2 Emotions -- 6.7 Media Analysis: Aesthetic Stereotypes -- 6.8 Media Analysis: Socio-Cultural Context -- 6.9 Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Reducing Stereotypes -- Chapter 7: Current Strategies -- 7.1 Introduction: A Message-Centred Approach -- 7.2 Visibility -- 7.3 Incidentality -- 7.4 Narrative Foregrounding -- 7.5 Non-stereotypical Portrayals -- 7.6 Positive Portrayals -- 7.7 Exposing Stigma and Stereotypes -- 7.8 Subverting Stigma and Stereotypes -- 7.9 Outgroup Self-representation -- 7.10 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Perspective-Taking |
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8.1 Introduction: Achieving Stereotype Reduction -- 8.2 The Stereotype Reduction Model -- 8.3 Perspective-Taking -- 8.4 Materiality -- 8.5 Materiality through Objects -- 8.6 Materiality in the Home -- 8.7 Materiality in the Past -- 8.8 Everydayness -- 8.9 Everydayness through Routines and Rituals -- 8.10 Everydayness through Disruptions and Failures -- 8.11 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Cross-Categorisation -- 9.1 Introduction: Multiple Categorisation -- 9.2 Multiple Categorisation Configurations -- 9.3 Surprising Category Combinations -- 9.4 Case Study: The Gardeners of Kabul -- 9.5 Less Distant Outgroups |
| Summary |
This book studies how documentaries, and factual media in general, can contribute to the reduction of social stigma and prejudice. It adopts models from social psychology, media studies and cultural studies and is intended for scholars and media makers who aim to increase social inclusion and diversity by deconstructing harmful boundaries between social groups. Such boundaries may be based on the stereotyping of ethnicity, culture, age, dis/ability, gender and sexual orientation, for example. The first part of the book outlines the functionality of stereotypes as essential processes for social cognition both in real life and during documentary viewing. The second part establishes a classification system for stigmatising media stereotypes and formulates a methodology based on critical discourse analysis to analyse them in narrative and audio-visual representations. The third and final part of the book conceptualises a set of methodologies to reduce stigmatising stereotypes. These methodologies are based on 1) representations that prompt perspectival alignment with screen characters, and 2) the perceived salience of multiple, intersecting social identities. Catalin Brylla is Principal Lecturer in Film and TV at Bournemouth University, UK, where he is Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice. He also chairs the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, and he has co-edited Documentary and Disability (2017) and Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film (2018) |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Documentary mass media -- Social aspects
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Stigma (Social psychology) -- Prevention
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Prejudices -- Prevention
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3031263723 |
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9783031263729 |
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