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Acquaye, Philip. "Portrayal of Violence Against Women in Ghanaian Movies." British Journal of Mass Communication and Media Research 2, no. 1 (January 18, 2022): 14–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/bjmcmr-kbe5rpgt.
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In media entertainment, violence is a commonplace. Media platforms tend to portray women in certain negative ways and as having more negative qualities than other members of society such as the male gender. These portrayals provide viewers with ways of thinking about and acting towards members of a particular group, thus affecting communication and perception. The study thus, seeks to investigate the portrayal of violence against women in Ghanaian movies in order to ascertain whether media portrayal of violence against women is merely a reflection of reality within our social structure or a distorted picture to reinforce violence against women. A purposive sampling technique was used in selecting the movies for the study. Three movies were selected and a content analysis of these movies were guided by three research questions aimed at investigating the forms of violence that are predominantly portrayed in Ghanaian movies, ascertain how these portrayals position women in the movies and analyse how these portrayals go to reinforce violence against women in Ghanaian movies. The findings of the study shows that portrayal of violence against women in Ghanaian movies is a reflection of realities in our social structure. These portrayals do not only reflect happenings in society but goes further to reinforce violence against women in Ghanaian communities.
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Defoort, Carine M. G. "Five Visions of Yang Zhu Before He Became a Philosopher." Asian Studies 8, no. 2 (May 20, 2020): 235–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/as.2020.8.2.235-256.
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This paper traces the consecutive emergence of five important portrayals of Yang Zhu before he became a philosopher in the Republic. In the late Zhou, he was portrayed as a rival in debate and a defender of physical or personal integrity. From the Han onward, he became part of a rhetorical trope based on Mencius’ portrayal. In the Wei Jin he was a prominent figure in his own right. The fourth portrayal, from the Song onward, contained reflections on his thought in the shadow of Mozi and Confucian orthodoxy. Finally, in the late Qing, Kang Youwei presented him as a minor political reformer responding to Confucius’ reform plans. These layers contributed in various ways to the nowadays almost exclusive presentation of Yang Zhu as a philosopher, a defender of social tolerance, autonomy, or individual freedom. The rich variety of the portrayals has too often been sacrificed for this relatively homogeneous portrayal.
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Franiuk, Renae, Jill Coleman, and Bethany Apa. "The Influence of Non-Misogynous and Mixed Portrayals of Intimate Partner Violence in Music on Beliefs About Intimate Partner Violence." Violence Against Women 23, no. 2 (July 9, 2016): 243–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801216637473.
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In this study, we investigated the effect of songs that offer non-misogynous and ambivalent portrayals of intimate partner violence (IPV). Participants ( N = 103) were exposed to a misogynous song about IPV, a song critical of IPV, and a song that offered an ambivalent portrayal of IPV. Our results showed positive effects of the anti-IPV song, and both positive and negative effects of the ambivalent portrayal on participants’ beliefs about a violent relationship. These findings suggest that the context in which IPV is portrayed should be considered when evaluating the impact of media depicting IPV.
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Elliott, J., and A. J. Wootton. "Some Ritual Idioms of Gender in British Television Advertising." Sociological Review 45, no. 3 (August 1997): 437–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.00072.
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The focus of this article is on portrayals of men and women in UK TV adverts, especially those for chocolate and related products. These ads were selected because they typically portray people engaged in a limited range of activities, and this permits more systematic comparison between them. Analysis focuses on forms of portrayal distinctive to either gender. Emphasis is placed on two findings – the portrayal of women as detachable from their local environments, and of men as foolish and incompetent. It is argued that these patterns are characteristic of TV ads more generally, and that they have possible connections with general cultural presuppositions concerning men and women.
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Izzuddin, Reza Pahlevi Dalimunthe, and Sulistiyono Susilo. "The Portrayal of Women in Arabic Textbooks for Non-Arabic Speakers." SAGE Open 11, no. 2 (April 2021): 215824402110141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211014184.
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The portrayal of gender in a textbook is able to influence students’ understanding of the concept of gender equality (GE). The unfair portrayal of women in textbooks will have a negative effect on students’ conceptions of gender. Although some previous studies have found that textbooks portray a fair and constructive picture of women by positioning them on a par with men, other studies have shown that gender inequality still exists in the contents of Arabic textbooks, presenting stereotypical and gender bias. To fill this void, this article uses critical discourse analysis to analyze the content of Arabic textbooks for non-Arabic speakers. It aims at portraying women in Arabic textbooks to non-Arabic speakers. The study findings revealed the tendencies to male firstness by positioning the characters of women being more likely portrayed as subordinates in the Arabic textbooks. In addition, there are imbalances in women portrayal in the visibility, order of mention, and male-to-female ratios in the Arabic textbooks. The results also showed that women in some parts of the Arabic textbooks are also portrayed in a constructive portrayal of having equal rights as men in terms of profession and access to education. This study highlights the importance of the concept of GE in Arabic textbooks to increase social awareness.
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Boehm, Nicholas, Kyle Richardson, William Hart, and Gregory K. Tortoriello. "Spread of Negative Affect via Social Media: The Affective Consequences of Viewing Others’ Fortunate and Unfortunate Social Media Posts." American Journal of Psychology 135, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/19398298.135.1.02.
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Abstract Research suggests that viewing successful or fortunate others’ social media portrayals may promote a more negative hedonic experience via social comparison tendencies, but this notion has rarely been tested experimentally. Here, we tested the possibility that viewing fortunate and unfortunate social media portrayals (vs. neutral portrayals) may also promote a negative hedonic experience. In Experiment 1, participants indicated their positive and negative affect before and after viewing either fortunate, unfortunate, or mundane (neutral) social media portrayals. Inconsistent with conventional theorizing, only participants who viewed the unfortunate portrayal reported more negative affect balance than participants who viewed the neutral portrayal. Experiment 2 provided conceptually similar results, indicating that participants viewing an unfortunate (vs. fortunate) portrayal indicated more negative affect balance. Although somewhat inconsistent with conventional wisdom, the findings suggest negative hedonic experiences can spread on social media.
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North, E. "The portrayal of children in magazine advertising: A post-apartheid study." South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 1, no. 3 (September 30, 1998): 362–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v1i3.2551.
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A content analysis is presented of the portrayal of child actors in advertisements obtained from nine consumer magazines over a three month period in 1983, 1987, and 1997. A limited number of studies have investigated the portrayal of children in magazine advertisements, but no previous study looked exclusively at the roles children depict in advertisements. The primary objective of the present study was to describe the various roles children portray in full page magazine advertisements. Secondary objectives focused on the age and sex of the models and the use of children of different races in the same advertisement. The results indicate that children are portrayed in seven different roles in the advertisements. Suggestions for further research are offered.
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Jain, Parul. "Deliberative versus nondeliberative evaluation of a minority group after viewing an entertainment portrayal." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 20, no. 6 (January 27, 2016): 770–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430215619492.
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This study tests whether entertainment portrayals of international medical graduate physicians may influence attitudes toward such physicians among television viewers. Given the growing importance of international physicians in U.S. health care delivery, such effects would have the potential to impact significant numbers of patient–physician interactions. From a theoretical and methodological standpoint, this examination extends existing work on entertainment portrayals of often-stigmatized minorities and its impact on minorities for whom stereotypes may be in some respects favorable. An experiment manipulating positive versus negative portrayals of the communicative and professional competence of an Asian Indian female physician on the program ER found that exposure had no effect on conventional, deliberative measures of attitude toward such physicians. However, use of attitude-accessibility measurement suggested that viewers (to the extent that they identified with the narrative character, an Asian Indian physician) who saw the negative portrayal were slower to respond that they liked other Asian Indian female physicians who were presented in photos in a judgment task afterwards—in other words, the negative portrayal inhibited an approach response to other similar physicians. An implication of this finding is that such television portrayals may have the potential to influence affective responses to medical providers from the same demographic as the character portrayed, in ways viewers are likely to be unaware of. Such responses may well influence patient expectations and interactions with such physicians.
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Azmi, Nor Jijidiana, Radzuwan Rashid, Bahtiar Mohamad, Mairas Abd Rahman, and Zulkarnian Ahmad. "Student Athletes’ Perception of Female Models in Sports Advertisements." Asian Social Science 13, no. 10 (September 27, 2017): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v13n10p120.
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Women in advertisements are no longer portrayed as having traditional roles. Instead, they are portrayed as dominant and powerful. This new marketing strategy is hoped to be more persuasive in reaching the target audience, especially the female buyers, thus increasing the sales in the market. This qualitative research aims to explore student-athletes’ views on the portrayal of female models in sports advertisements. A focus group interview involving three female student-athletes was conducted. A total of 20 advertisements, which portray female models, from five leading sports brands were used as stimuli for the focus group. The findings reveal that the participants have different perceptions towards the body image and athletic values of the advertisements, despite having the same background as a student athlete. Sexual appeal, the portrayal of healthy and positive body image, and strong athletic ability are among the functions of the female models in the advertisements, as perceived by the participants.
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KESSLER, EVA-MARIE, KATRIN RAKOCZY, and URSULA M. STAUDINGER. "The portrayal of older people in prime time television series: the match with gerontological evidence." Ageing and Society 24, no. 4 (July 2004): 531–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x04002338.
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Empirical studies in several disciplines including sociology, psychology and communications science have investigated images of older people in the mass media, but analyses to date have failed systematically to apply gerontological concepts and to compare the portrayal of old age with ‘real-world’ evidence. A model of older people's internal and external resources was used to assess the portrayal of older people in prime-time television drama series. Three hours of programmes broadcast over six weeks in 2001 of 32 prime-time television series on the four German networks with the largest market shares were examined. The age of 355 portrayed characters were estimated, and the socio-economic, health-related and psychological resources of the 30 characters rated as 60 years or older were assessed. Observational categories and rating dimensions were developed on the basis of the resource model. Older people were heavily under-represented, especially women and those of advanced old age. Furthermore, the representation of older people's social participation and financial resources was overly positive. Finally, older women and men were portrayed in traditional gender roles. The antecedents and consequences of the biased portrayals (of old and young people) are discussed from a psychological perspective.
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Olson, Alexander. "Working with Roman history: Attaleiates’ portrayal of the Normans." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 41, no. 1 (March 16, 2017): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/byz.2016.25.
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This paper suggests that Michael Attaleiates, the eleventh-century Byzantine historian, purposefully changed the ethnic label for his contemporary Norman mercenaries from ‘Frank’ to ‘Latin’ in order to portray these figures as ethnically close to the Byzantines of his own day. In addition, it suggests that Attaleiates’ motives for such a portrayal lay in his argument that Norman mercenaries were a potential solution to the empire's challenges with the Seljuks. This article examines the ways in which Attaleiates positively portrayed Norman mercenaries in Byzantium, and how he crafted historical parallels between them and the Latins of Byzantium's Roman past.
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Chattopadhyay, Jacqueline. "Are press depictions of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries favorable to policy durability?" Politics and the Life Sciences 34, no. 2 (2015): 7–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pls.2015.16.
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Background: If successfully implemented and enduring, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stands to expand health insurance access in absolute terms, reduce inter-group disparities in that access, and reduce exposure to the financial vulnerabilities illness entails. Its durability—meaning both avoidance of outright retrenchment and fidelity to its policy aims—is thus of scholarly interest. Past literature suggests that social constructions of a policy’s beneficiaries may impact durability.Questions: This paper first describes media portrayals of ACA beneficiaries with an eye toward answering three descriptive questions: (1) Do portrayals depict beneficiaries as economically heterogeneous? (2) Do portrayals focus attention on groups that have acquired new political relevance due to the ACA, such as young adults? (3) What themes that have served as messages about beneficiary “deservingness” in past social policy are most frequent in ACA beneficiary portrayals? The paper then assesses how the portrayal patterns that these questions uncover may work both for and against the ACA’s durability, finding reasons for confidence as well as caution.Methods: Using manual and automated methods, this paper analyzes newspaper text from August 2013 through January 2014 to trace portrayals of two ACA “target populations” before and during the new law’s first open-enrollment period: those newly eligible for Medicaid, and those eligible for subsidies to assist in the purchase of private health insurance under the ACA. This paper also studies newspaper text portrayals of two groups informally crafted by the ACA in this timeframe: those gaining health insurance and those losing it.Results: The text data uncover the following answers to the three descriptive questions for the timeframe studied: (1) Portrayals may underplay beneficiaries’ economic heterogeneity. (2) Portrayals pay little attention to young adults. (3) Portrayals emphasize themes of workforce participation, economic self-sufficiency, and insider status. Health status, age, gender, and race/ethnicity appear to receive little attention.Implications and Conclusions: Existing literature suggests that these portrayal patterns may both support and limit ACA durability. In favor of durability is that ACA beneficiaries are depicted in terms that have been associated with deservingness in past American social policy—particularly being cast as workers and insiders. Yet, the results also give three reasons for caution. First, ACA insurance-losers are also portrayed as deserving. Second, it is unclear how the portrayal patterns found may impact the durability of the ACA’s efforts to cut insurance disparities by age, health status, and especially race/ethnicity. Third, portrayals’ strong casting of beneficiaries as workers, and limited attention to beneficiaries’ economic heterogeneity and to young adults, may do little to help cultivate beneficiary political engagement around the ACA.
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R, Dr Meghana Rao, and Shankar Devasoth. "Representation of History and Culture in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason and The Shadow Lines." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 5 (2022): 040–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.75.7.
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Indian English fiction scholars portray history and culture and their encounters in man centric social orders with a profound thoughtful comprehension. Ghosh’s set of experiences and culture are depicted delicately and truth be told they are the main spirits in his fiction. He depicts their social development. Amitav Ghosh never presents his women characters as obvious extremist women’s activists nor as the generalization pictures of Sita and Savitri. His portrayal of women is basically sensible. Through his portrayal of women in his novels, Amitav Ghosh has strived to investigate the close to home universe of culture that assists the readers with figuring out the inferior to reasonableness as well as their critical research. In The Shadow Lines history and culture is being addressed as gutsy as men since they battle the difficulties of livelihood, destitution unfairness. In the novel The Circle of Reason characters are that of an extraordinary progressive, with solid patriot sentiments. The tendency of the post present day Indian English creator is to flabbergast a great many whimsical portrayals and categorisations with the result that unquestionable lines and cut off points between the designs, as well as blissful of an insightful work are speedy disappearing. Amitav Ghosh mirrors the states of history and culture in his books. Ghosh follows the development of the way of life and world from the generalizations to the orientation segregation. His women characters are depicted as life providers and are the main spirits of his fiction. He depicts history and culture and its involvement in thoughtful comprehension. This paper concentrates on the portrayal of culture and history in select novels of Amitav Ghosh of his The Shadow Lines and The Circle of Reason. In these two novels, Ghosh visualizes a future where custom will prompt the liberating changes in the bigger social issues. The research paper also portrays the existence of three age across societies and boundaries. In this present paper, I additionally would examine philosophical components, women’s struggle against man centric culture, orientation talk and status of women in the general public.
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Osakpolor, Emwinromwankhoe. "Portrayal of Women in Contemporary Nollywood Films: Isoken and King of Boys in Focus." CINEJ Cinema Journal 9, no. 1 (July 14, 2021): 117–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2021.299.
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This study investigates the portrayal of women in contemporary Nollywood films, using Isoken (2017) and King of Boys (2018) as case studies. The objective was to highlight the various ways in which women in the films are portrayed to viewers and ascertain whether contemporary Nollywood movies are an improvement on the issues of gender stereotypes and sexism which are hitherto prevalent in the industry. Anchored on the cultivation theory, the study adopted the qualitative content analysis method. Findings showed that women in the studied films are negatively portrayed in various ways and that these portrayals are, at best, parallel to the stereotypical ways in which women were portrayed in previous Nollywood movies. Taking cognizance of the fact that both films are directed by women, the researcher recommends that Nollywood female directors should look beyond the lenses of financial gains and set a pace with regards to changing the narrative and portraying Nigerian women in a positive light.
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Mallan, C. T. "Cassius Dio on Julia Domna: A Study of the Political and Ethical Functions of Biographical Representation in Dio’s Roman History." Mnemosyne 66, no. 4-5 (2013): 734–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12341161.
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Abstract Of the individuals who appear in the closing books of Cassius Dio’s Roman History, there is perhaps none more beguiling than Julia Domna. Dio’s account of the life of Domna is the fullest surviving from antiquity. Yet, Dio’s portrayal of Domna is not a miscellany of facts about the empress, and thus should not be treated as such. Rather, it is a contrived literary portrayal that fulfilled important moralizing functions within the Severan narrative of the Roman History. This article provides an analysis of Dio’s portrayal of Domna. It suggests that Dio shaped his portrayal of Domna to serve two purposes within the text: firstly, to act as a foil to his portrayals of C. Fulvius Plautianus and Caracalla; and, secondly, to explore through the figure of Domna political and ethical themes relevant to Dio’s appraisal of the Severan period.
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Ambikapathy, Manimegalai, and Hasmah Zanuddin. "A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF “MALAYSIAN-LAHAD DATU” CRISIS AND CRISIS RESPONSES IN ETHNIC NEWSPAPERS IN MALAYSIA." International Journal of Law, Government and Communication 4, no. 17 (December 29, 2019): 132–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/ijlgc.4170013.
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This research was to examine the portrayal of crisis response strategies in Malaysian local vernacular printed dailies in covering terrorism crises which is the Lahad Datu crisis in Malaysia. The researcher relied on Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) and Framing theory to identify the news coverage and appropriate solutions through newspaper framing. Five variables were identified by the researcher in examining crisis response strategies such as news category, news slants, news framing, news sources and portrayal of visuals. Through quantitative content analysis, data revealed that the solution category was portrayed by Nanban daily, but Sin Chew focused on the problem category. For the news slants, Sin Chew daily framed negative slants of news most but Nanban daily portrayed issues in positive slants. In measuring the news frame, both dailies focused more on the attribution of responsibility frame. In examining the crisis response strategies, the researcher found, justification crisis response was portrayed predominantly but there is a significant difference between two different vernacular dailies in the portrayal of justification crisis response followed by concern crisis response. Kruskal Wallis’s test revealed that there is a significant difference in the portrayal of concern response between two dailies however, both newspapers having significant associations in portraying compensation crisis response.
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Brown, Katrina. "Native American Stereotypes in Literature." Digital Literature Review 6 (January 15, 2019): 42–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.6.0.42-53.
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Historically, Western White society has portrayed Native American societies as utopias that we canlook to for political, spiritual, and artistic inspiration. For example, Columbus’s original “Letters ofDiscovery” began this tradition by writing the natives as a primitive, pure, communal society, andMontaigne’s “Of the Cannibals” continued this tradition with his similar portrayal of native peoples.Such portrayals ultimately lead to harmful stereotypes, expectations, and marginalization of NativeAmerican people by White society. With the aid of Robert Berkhofer Jr’s The White Man’s Indian,this essay explores the idea of the noble savage in conjunction with utopian ideals and breaks downthe process by which Native ways of life have been falsely portrayed as utopias. Additionally, itexplores the consequences of such stereotypical depictions and looks at attempts to dispel suchutopian myths.
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Ullah, Faiz, and Dr Atif Ashraf. "Gender Portrayal in Outdoor Advertising in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Provinces of Pakistan." Journal of Peace, Development & Communication Volume 4, Issue 3 (December 30, 2020): 110–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.36968/jpdc-v04-i03-07.
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Gender portrayal and the representations of males and females in advertising remains the core interest of researchers from gender studies and communication research. In advertising scholarship, it is often found that there are differences in gender portrayal specifically due to the cultural contexts. In the present study, we explore the gender portrayal in outdoor billboard advertising of two provinces of Pakistan; Punjab and KPK. Theoretically and conceptually, the study takes roots from cultural studies on advertising and social semiotics studies on gender and advertising. We collect data of 360 billboard advertisements from two cities of Punjab and two cities of KPK. We coded 654 units in these 360 billboards according to the conceptual categories of social semiotics. In the present study we found that female models are portrayed more as compare to the male models in outdoor advertising of both provinces; Punjab and KPK. Although, the dominant pattern of gender portrayal in advertisements of KPK is similar to Punjab, however, it is slightly different from Punjab. In KPK, males are also portrayed as submissive. Females are more associated with nurturing roles as compared to Punjab. Hence, it is concluded that in outdoor advertising of Pakistan, females are objectified and they are mostly used for their glamour and beauty. On the contrary, males are portrayed as dominant and in power.
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Savin-Baden, Maggi, and Gemma Tombs. "The Glow of Unwork? Issues of Portrayal in Arts-Related Research." LEARNing Landscapes 9, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 461–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v9i2.787.
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In this paper we argue that arts-related research provides greater or diverse opportunities to represent and portray data di erently and suggest that these ways are underutilized. For example, for many researchers legitimacy comes through the use of participants’ voices in the form of quotations. However, we argue that this stance towards plausibility and legitimacy is problematic and needs to be reconsidered in terms of understanding di erences in types of portrayal, recognizing how researchers position themselves in relation to portrayal, and understanding decision-making in relation to portrayal.
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Rahayu, Nurhadianty. "The Portrayal of Gender and Race in Cars Trilogy." ATAVISME 22, no. 1 (June 26, 2019): 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.24257/atavisme.v22i1.532.75-87.
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As the most commercially successful animated film, Cars trilogy, produced by Pixar Animation Studios, are opted to be analysed due to its impact on formulating perception of gender and race. Considering that intolerance and gender-based injustice still happens within our society, any discussion about gender and race portrayal, particularly through films, becomes urgent. The study aims at investigating how gender and race are portrayed in Cars trilogy. Gender portrayal is analysed through Beauvoir’s concept of immanence and transcendence and Finklea’s themes about masculinities. The portrayal of race is investigated using McLaren’s critical multiculturalism. The study uses the descriptive analytical interpretative method. The data analyzed are the characters, dialogue, and plot. The result shows that men and women are portrayed as equal but the stereotypes are still visible. Men are portrayed not only brave but also confident. Males’ romantic interest is manifested in heterosexual desire and male bosses are driven by profit. Women can be successful in racing if she dares to intervene the bureaucracy or is given opportunity by men. Different accent of English is seen as less capable and white characters are not always portrayed unproblematic.
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Lachover, Einat. "Signs of change in media representation of women in Israeli politics: Leading and peripheral women contenders." Journalism 18, no. 4 (June 23, 2016): 446–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884915610991.
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The study seeks to examine gender portrayal of Israeli women politicians, and specifically that of candidates for Israel’s parliament on televised news and in print in the elections of 2013. The study is based on an interpretive analysis of all news items wherein the women candidates are mentioned during the month preceding the elections. This study joins recent studies that point to a change in how women politicians are portrayed in the media. Leading contenders succeed in influencing their coverage, and commensurately usually enjoy nonstereotypically gendered portrayal. Moreover, they occasionally seek to make use of hegemonic cultural norms to benefit what they perceive as structuring their positive gendered portrayal. In contrast, the coverage of peripheral contenders suffers from traditional patterns of sidelining. It emerges that peripheral contenders who gain relatively high exposure are portrayed as exceptional based either on their extraordinary other-ness or on the newsworthiness of their campaigns.
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Refonaa, J., A. Porselvi, S. L. Jany Shabu, B. V. Santhosh Krishna, and Kazy Noor-E.-Alam Siddiquee. "Characterisation of Intelligent Autonomous Agents Inspired by Biological Theory in Cognitive Environment." Mobile Information Systems 2022 (April 14, 2022): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4931194.
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The paper investigates a naturally motivated meaning of wise shrewd self-ruling specialists of humans. Knowledge is identified with whether the conduct of a framework adds to its self-upkeep. Conduct turns out to be clearer (or adapts to more biological issue factors) when it is able to make and utilize portrayals. The thought of portrayal ought not to be confined to formal articulations with neuro hypothetical semantics. The element at different degrees of canny frameworks assumes a fundamental part in shaping portrayals. The paper investigates an organically roused meaning of shrewd self-ruling specialists of humans. Insight is identified with whether the conduct of a framework adds to its self-upkeep. Conduct turns out to be keener when it is proficient to make and utilize portrayals. The idea of portrayal also focused on formal articulations with sentimental hypothetical semantics.
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Posen, Solomon. "The Portrayal of the Physician in Non-Medical Literature — Favourable Portrayals." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 86, no. 12 (December 1993): 724–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014107689308601216.
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BELAND, ROBERT M., and TERRY L. MILLS. "Positive Portrayal of Grandparents in Current Children's Literature." Journal of Family Issues 22, no. 5 (July 2001): 639–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019251301022005006.
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Children's books have the potential to affect cultural norms and attitudes about older adults in many ways. The purpose of this study was to investigate the portrayal of grandparents in children's literature. Sixty-four children's books published since 1985 were randomly selected and content analyzed. In general, there was an overwhelming positive portrayal of grandparents in these books. Positive grandparent characteristics such as independence and happiness were depicted in a majority of the books the authors examined. Other characteristics such as wisdom and understanding were portrayed in slightly less than a majority of the stories. Although some of the stories depicted grandparents with various disabilities, physical impairment did not detract from the positive depiction of the grandparent. Future research might investigate the variance in the portrayal of grandparents along racial/ethnic and gender lines. For example, how are grandparents from various demographic groups portrayed in terms of status, wisdom, functional abilities, or equity?
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Lim, Megan S. C., Margaret E. Hellard, and Danielle Horyniak. "Safe sex in chick lit: a ‘novel' analysis of sexual health references in popular women’s fiction." Sexual Health 15, no. 5 (2018): 468. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh18017.
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Background Media, including fiction novels, influences health behaviours in women’s lives. This research measures the prevalence of sexual content and explores the portrayal of sexual health topics in ‘chick lit’, a genre of fiction characterised by neoliberal feminism. Methods: Fifty bestselling chick lit novels were identified from the book-related website, Goodreads. Information was extracted on sexual encounters taking place: characters involved, behaviours depicted, references to contraception and other (un)safe sex practices. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse key features of sexual encounters, and thematic analysis conducted to explore the portrayal of (un)safe sex. Results: Forty-five books (90%) contained at least one sexual scene (total: 199 scenes). 110 scenes explicitly described sexual behaviours, mostly commonly vaginal intercourse (72%), manual stimulation of a woman (28%) or oral stimulation of a man (15%) or woman (15%), and 53% of scenes implied sexual intercourse occurred but did not describe the event. Condom use was described in 43% of scenes with clearly described vaginal intercourse, almost exclusively in scenes involving dating or casual partners. Condoms were portrayed as a ‘necessary evil’; although use was normalised, they were described as having negative effects on pleasure and intimacy. Conclusions: Portrayals of sexual encounters in chick lit are realistic and recognise that safe sex does not always occur. Despite references to condom use being prevalent, the portrayal of condoms in a negative light could discourage young women from their use. Chick lit could provide a ‘novel’ opportunity to model positive behaviours and promote discussion of safer sex practices.
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Kara, Halim. "The Literary Portrayal of Mehmed II in Turkish Historical Fiction." New Perspectives on Turkey 36 (2007): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s089663460000460x.
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AbstractThis article examines the portrayal of Mehmed II, the conqueror of Istanbul, in Turkish historical fiction, as well as the literary and ideological implications of his portrayal with regard to Turkish national identity. Since the early Turkish Republic, Mehmed II has been described as a major character in over thirty historical novels. The article argues that over time the literary characterization of Mehmed II in Turkish fiction has undergone substantial change. During the early republican period, historical fiction adopted an ambivalent attitude toward Mehmed II. While one historical novel under discussion focuses mostly on Mehmed II's despotism and aggressive tendencies, another novel contemplates his military bravery and his ability to govern. However, with the arrival of the multi-party system in 1950, these ambivalent approaches toward Mehmed II changed, and he began to be portrayed as the ideal Turkish statesman, gaining the status of a national hero. The latter attitude toward him dominated historical fiction writing as late as in the early 1990s. At that time, Turkish historical meta-fiction began to portray a more complex and ambiguous Mehmed II, thus both challenging as well as re-producing his previous representations.
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Kohut, Karl. "Fernandez de Oviedo, historiador y literato. Humanismo, cristianismo e hidalguia." Estudios Latinoamericanos 15 (December 31, 1992): 55–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.36447/estudios1992.v15.art2.
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Fernández de Oviedo, famous Spanish conquistador and author of "Historia General y Natural de los Indias", is a controversial historical figure. Since his period, he is usually portrayed negatively as an inhuman, fierce enemy of the Indians. Kohut's monograph investigates the validity of such portrayal. According to his study, his negative role cannot be denied, but there were number of issues that are usually omitted and Oviedo's negative portrayal may have been exaggerated.
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Storer, Heather L., and Katyayani R. Strohl. "A Primer for Preventing Teen Dating Violence? The Representation of Teen Dating Violence in Young Adult Literature and Its Implications for Prevention." Violence Against Women 23, no. 14 (September 18, 2016): 1730–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801216666725.
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Teen dating violence (TDV) is a significant public health issue. Preventing TDV requires attention to risk and protective factors across ecological system levels. The media is one of the primary cultural drivers of societal-level social scripts about the causes of TDV. Framing theory asserts that the media’s portrayal of social issues, including what contextual information is included and/or excluded, affects individual-level attitudes about TDV and potential policy responses. This study investigates the representation of TDV in young adult (YA) literature, a media genre that is marketed to adolescent audiences. Data include all YA novels ( N = 8) that have a primary focus on TDV. Texts were analyzed systematically using thematic content analysis methods. Results indicate that the antecedents of TDV were portrayed as being related to victim personal characteristics such as inexperience in relationships and low self-esteem. Rather than underscoring how societal-level factors contribute to TDV, perpetration was seen as stemming from family dysfunction and mental health issues. These results underscore how the structural determinants of TDV have been overshadowed in the media’s portrayal of TDV, in favor of narrow portrayals of victimization and perpetration. Implications for TDV prevention programs including the importance of media literacy are discussed.
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Ramola, Tanya. "Fusing the Mythological with the Contemporary: A Study of the Revisionist Version of Sita in Amish Tripathis Sita: Warrior of Mithila." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. 10 (October 31, 2021): 884–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.38547.
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Abstract: Sita: Warrior of Mithila (2017), the second book in the Ramachandra series by Amish Tripathi, is a true representative of the genre of revisionist writings. Using the technique of hyperlink, the author portrays Valmiki’s leading lady as a fierce woman unlike other versions of the classical text wherein the character of Sita is docile and much more suppressed without a voice of her own. She is practical and intelligent and has the habit of taking decisions on her own during her adolescence. She is completely opposed to the caste system practised in India that acts as a hindrance in the progress of the country where people blindly follow the rigid caste system, giving utmost importance to their caste and not to their skills or karmas. Tripathi projects the carefree and adventurous character of Sita skilled in various arts. Relationship between nature and Sita is depicted in most of the chapters wherein nature is shown as the protector as well as the destroyer. This paper is an attempt to study the revisionist portrayal of Sita as projected by Amish Tripathi and the various ways this portrayal is different from the various other portrayals of Sita in other contemporary revisionist texts. Keywords: Dharma Nation Complexion Nature Caste system Patriarchy
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Gerritsen, Debby L., Jan Oyebode, and Dianne Gove. "Ethical implications of the perception and portrayal of dementia." Dementia 17, no. 5 (June 10, 2016): 596–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471301216654036.
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The way we perceive and portray dementia has implications for how we act towards people with dementia and how we address the issue of dementia within society. As a multi-disciplinary working group, established within the framework of the European Dementia Ethics Network of Alzheimer Europe, we aimed to describe the different ways that people with dementia are perceived and portrayed within society and to consider the moral implications of this. In the current paper, we address perceptions of dementia as reflected in explanatory models of its cause and nature, descriptions of characteristics of people with dementia, the use of language, media portrayals and the views of people living with dementia. Academics and professionals could use this exploration to reflect on their behaviour and their use of language regarding people with dementia.
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Antoniades, Hera, and Clive M. J. Warren. "The portrayal of Australian women in property publications." Property Management 36, no. 1 (February 19, 2018): 119–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pm-10-2017-0058.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to undertake an analysis of the visual portrayal of women published in a professional journal within the built environment and to establish whether or not there is gender stereotyping through these published images. Design/methodology/approach A prominent property professional industry journal was selected for the research analysis. This journal was selected because of the national coverage within Australia and high prominence within the property industry. The analysis focused on a total of 166 pictures in the 2015 issues. The coding identified the publication year, issue number and page number of each photograph analysed and total number of pictures on each page. After this information was tabulated, each photograph was analysed using a thematic analysis approach. Findings The research identified that given the opportunity to be photographed ad hoc, women tend to take the dominant stance and yet when the pictures were posed, the women showed a tendency to adopt a submissive stance. Male images were 13.39 per cent in the dominance category indicating a higher score in comparison to females at 3.45 per cent. Practical implications Whilst it is generally accepted that there are more males in the built environment, the reality leans towards the notion that with less woman on property boards and management roles, it will be difficult to portray women in positions of authority and to balance the gender portrayal. In summary, the marginalisation of women is evident, and marketing media can be highly influential and unintentionally promote gender inequity with image portrayal. Originality/value This research provides a valuable insight on how women are portrayed in the property profession. The property industry and the professional bodies can provide an influential role to promote gender equality.
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Auwen, Aurora, Mark Emmons, and Walter Dehority. "Portrayal of Immunization in American Cinema: 1925 to 2016." Clinical Pediatrics 59, no. 4-5 (January 22, 2020): 360–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0009922819901004.
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The American media often disseminates antivaccination messages. Cinema in particular reaches many individuals and influences attitudes regarding high-risk behaviors such as smoking and alcohol use. We hypothesized that negative cinematic portrayals of immunization have increased over the last 3 decades. Films released in the United States featuring immunization through 2016 were identified on IMDb and viewed in their entirety by 2 reviewers. Themes were recorded, and the portrayal of immunization (positive, negative, or mixed) across each decade was assessed in a logistic regression model. Cultural references attributed to films (eg, television references) were recorded from the “connection” feature on IMDb. Fifty relevant films were identified (1925-2016). Negative/mixed portrayals of immunization were more frequent after 1990 (odds ratio = 4.0, 95% confidence interval = 1.2-13.5), and films with positive immunization portrayals garnered significantly fewer cultural references than films with negative/mixed portrayals (mean = 9.2 vs 56.2, P = .048). American cinema features increasingly negative portrayals of immunization.
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Gilly, Mary C. "Sex Roles in Advertising: A Comparison of Television Advertisements in Australia, Mexico, and the United States." Journal of Marketing 52, no. 2 (April 1988): 75–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002224298805200206.
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In the past, research has found that the portrayal of sex roles in advertising has not reflected equality or reality. Further, studies typically have examined only U.S. advertising, leaving open the question of cultural influence on advertising's sex role portrayals. The author offers a new analysis of sex roles in advertising and compares content analysis findings for U.S., Australian, and Mexican television advertisements. Results reveal differences in the portrayal of the sexes in U.S. advertisements. Australian advertisements show somewhat fewer sex role differences and Mexican advertisements show slightly more sex role differences than U.S. advertisements. Stereotypes are found in the advertising of all three countries, but are manifested in different ways.
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WESTERHOF, GERBEN J., KAROLIEN HARINK, MARTINE VAN SELM, MADELIJN STRICK, and RICK VAN BAAREN. "Filling a missing link: the influence of portrayals of older characters in television commercials on the memory performance of older adults." Ageing and Society 30, no. 5 (March 16, 2010): 897–912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x10000152.
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ABSTRACTThe portrayal of older characters in television commercials has over time become more varied and positive. This study examines how different portrayals of older characters relate to self-stereotyping, a process through which older individuals apply their beliefs about older people in general to themselves and behave accordingly. The study thereby seeks to connect, as few have previously done, cultural studies and critiques of media portrayals with psychological studies of the effects of self-stereotyping. Sixty participants aged 65–75 years were primed with television commercials that portrayed older characters in different ways: ‘warm and incompetent’, ‘warm and competent’, and ‘cold and competent’. It was hypothesised that priming with warm/incompetent portrayals would have a negative effect on memory performance because such representations match the dominant stereotype, and that the effect would occur only among older people who identify with their own age group. It was found that the participants who identified with their own age group did indeed show impaired memory performance after priming with warm/incompetent portrayals, but also that the same effect was found after priming with warm/competent portrayals. The findings are discussed in terms of resistance against stereotyping by older individuals themselves as well as by media producers.
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Yin, Cheng-Yue, Nan Bi, Patrick Poon, and Yang Sun. "Sexy or smart? The impact of endorser ethnicity and portrayal on Chinese women’s attitudes toward luxury advertising." Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 32, no. 2 (September 11, 2019): 406–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/apjml-12-2018-0518.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction effect of endorser ethnicity (local Chinese vs Western) and portrayal (smart vs sexy) on Chinese women’s attitudes toward luxury advertisements and brands, as well as any moderating effect appearance self-esteem has on the above-mentioned interaction. Design/methodology/approach Two online experiments were conducted. Study 1 was a 2×2 factorial design (with 280 participants), while Study 2 was a 2×2 ×2 factorial design (with 320 participants). Data were analyzed using a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) test and simple effect analysis. Findings Results demonstrated that Chinese female consumers are more likely to have a positive attitude toward advertisements for luxury goods and brands when a local Chinese (vs Western) endorser is used and portrayed as smart (vs sexy), particularly if consumers have low appearance self-esteem. Research limitations/implications The research focused only on female consumers and only one product type was used for the experiments. The use of controls for potential confounding effects was insufficient in this study design. Practical implications To maximize profits, marketers should choose the most appropriate combination of endorser ethnicity and portrayal in the Chinese luxury goods market. Accordingly, if adopting a localization strategy and using a Chinese female endorser, the endorser should be portrayed as smart rather than sexy. In contrast, if a luxury brand adopts an internationalization strategy and uses the same Western female endorser as in other countries, it is more effective to portray her as sexy rather than smart. Furthermore, advertisers should pay particular attention to Chinese female consumers who have low appearance self-esteem when advertising their product and/or brand. Originality/value Compared with past studies concerned with consumers’ perceptions of endorser image in advertisements through a focus on endorser ethnicity, this study linked endorser portrayal with his/her ethnicity and discussed the interaction effects between these two factors on consumers’ attitudes toward the advertisement and the brand portrayed in the advertisement. The findings herein contribute new insights to the body of work on luxury marketing and endorser advertising.
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Ahmed, Zia, Hafsa Qadir Buzdar, and Umaima Kamran. "Postcolonial Subject as Modern Orient: A Critical Analysis of Shamsie’s Home Fire." International Journal of Linguistics and Culture 2, no. 2 (November 24, 2021): 159–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/ijlc.v2i2.52.
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This paper aims to explore the evolution and portrayal of the modern Orients in Pakistani fiction and attempts to determine the causes, factors and impact of this shift from simple orient to New Orient. New orient is a discourse being popularized by the west under the influence of Islamophobia to generate a specific type of violent orient whose main job is to spread terrorism and is therefore dangerous. The similar discourses are being followed by the writers from non-western areas of the world and are deeply connected with the formerly colonized country. The new orient is an unwanted person whose loyalties with the identity, community, race and language are constantly shifting in his portrayal in the fiction. This necessitates a debate and discussion about this new orient. This research study delimits to Shamsie’s Home Fire to investigate the new orient and to determine the level of change that has occurred in the patterns of representation in the 21st century under the forces of globalization, neo-colonialism and islamophobia. Above all, this orient is not represented by the European writer but by the Postcolonial writers, such as Shamsie. The writers intend to read the selected chunks of the text under the lens of new-Orientalism and evaluate the portrayals of Aneeka and Parvaiz as the new-orientals, as portrayed by Shamsie. The most probable outcome of the study is that the post 9/11 fiction has given birth to a new set of issues related to the Orient and their settlements and has brought more sophistication in the characters of orient and hence they have diverted from their traditional portrayals as Orients.
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Portier-Young, Anathea. "Constructing Imperial and National Identities: Monstrous and Human Bodies in Book of Watchers, Daniel, and 2 Maccabees." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 74, no. 2 (April 2020): 159–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020964319896309.
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Monster theory illuminates the construction of imperial and national identities in the portrayals of monstrous and human bodies in three early Jewish texts; Book of Watchers, Daniel, and 2 Maccabees. Book of Watchers expresses anxiety about Judean/Jewish identity in the shadow of empire through its portrayal of a vulnerable humanity terrorized by voracious giants and their demonic spirits. Daniel dehumanizes empire and its agents, imaging empire as a colossal statue, an animalistic were-king, and a series of monstrous beasts, while one like a human being poses an alternative to imperial rule. Second Maccabees, by contrast, demythologizes, decapitates, dismembers, and disintegrates the imperial body in order to portray the integral Judean political body (and soul) as mature, pure, capable, and ordered.
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Kniazian, Anna. "Gender Stereotypes in Advertising." Armenian Folia Anglistika 10, no. 1-2 (12) (October 15, 2014): 82–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2014.10.1-2.082.
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The portrayal of men and women in advertising has received conside rable atten - tion over the last several decades, both by practitioners and academics. Research has primarily focused on the visual portrayal of men and women in advertising, within the realm of which, there appears to be a fundamental difference in the way men and women are portrayed. Men are generally stereotyped as competent, assertive, independent, and achievement oriented, whereas women are generally stereotyped as warm, sociable, interdependent, and relationship-oriented. Women are more often portrayed as young and concerned with physical attractiveness than their male counterparts. Masculine and feminine stereotypes are complementary in the sense that each gender group is seen as possessing a set of strengths that balance out their own weaknesses and that supplement the assumed strengths of the other group.
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Tyagi, Nitin, Sandeep Gupta, Shekhar Singh, and Krishan Kumar Saraswat. "Deep Learning Autoencoder for Single Specimen Face Remembrance." Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 17, no. 9 (July 1, 2020): 3907–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2020.8987.
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This paper aims learning powerful picture portrayal for single preparing test per individual face acknowledgment. Propelled at achievement of deep learning (DL) within picture portrayal, this article proposes a regulated autoencoder (AE), which is another sort of edifice obstruct for deep structures. There are 2 highlights particular our managed AE from standard AE. In the initial place, we uphold the countenances by variations to be delineated using the standard substance of the diacritic, as example, frontispiece having unbiased appearance and typical enlightenment, further, we uphold features comparing to an analogous diacritic to be comparable. Therefore, our administered autoencoder separates the highlights which are strong to fluctuations in light, articulation, impediment, and present, and encourages the face acknowledgment. We heap such regulated AEs to achieve the deep design and utilize it for separating highlights in picture portrayal. Exploratory corollary on the Extended Yale B (Athinodoros Georghiades, et al., 2001. From few to many: Illumination cone models for face recognition under variable lighting and pose. PAMI, 23(6), pp.643–660), informational collections show that by coupling with the normally utilized inadequate portrayal based grouping, our stacked managed AEs-based face portrayal essentially beats the usually utilized picture portrayals in single example per individual face acknowledgment, and it attains lofty cognizance precision conflicted and alternative DL prototypes, which includes the deep Lambertian organize, incite of appreciably fewer preparing detail and without area data. Additionally, regulated AE can correspondingly be utilized for face check that additionally shows its acceptability for frontispiece rendering.
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Rehman, Fasih ur, Rao Aisha Sadiq, and Atta-ul-Mustafa. "Reservations Chronicle: The Interplay of Real and Imaginary Places in Louise Erdrich's Tracks." Global Language Review VI, no. III (September 30, 2021): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(vi-iii).01.
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Spatiality occupies pivotal status in the thematic orientation of Native American literature. Native American male writers in general and female writers, in particular consider the issues of space and place with reference to issues of identity, separation and conflict with Euro-Americans. The present paper aims to study the portrayal of real and imaginary places in Louise Erdrich's Tracks. The study maintains that Erdrich infuses energy into the places portrayed in the novel. Hence, places do not remain static or flat rather; they assume dynamic characteristics that not only trigger action but also become a character in the development of the plot. The present study concludes that textual and imagined places should not be taken as mere portrayals of topographic structures; rather, they explain the socio-cultural paradigm of a given social order.
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Lee, Chelsey, and Jennifer S. Wong. "99 Reasons and He Ain’t One: A Content Analysis of Domestic Homicide News Coverage." Violence Against Women 26, no. 2 (March 5, 2019): 213–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801219832325.
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Domestic violence is a widespread issue, with victims suffering emotional and physical harm and severe cases resulting in homicide. Media presentation of these extreme instances may affect public opinion and related policies. The current study considered the portrayal of domestic homicides in Canadian print news, using articles published in the Vancouver Sun between 2004 and 2015. A content analysis shows domestic homicides were portrayed as isolated incidents and perpetuated the notions of victim blaming and offender excusing, rather than as connected to a pattern of domestic violence. This portrayal may affect how domestic violence and homicides are perceived and addressed.
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Dick, Angela Ngozi. "The Househelp in African Literature and Its Implication for Identity Representations: Evidence from Adichie’s Select Prose Fictions." English Linguistics Research 8, no. 3 (September 12, 2019): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v8n3p35.
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Househelps are usually boys and girls who go to live with other families to serve as domestic workers. They are usually not paid but their services are converted training them in school or in entrepreneurial empowerment. Their place in African Literature has been explored in Oyono’s Houseboy to portray colonialist policy of assimilation. In Ekwensi’s Jagua Nana’s Daughter, the househelp takes over the home as the protagonist combines the search for her mother and her carrier as a lawyer. Adichie’s prose fictions are inundated with househelps. This article probes the roles of househelps in the development of the plot and finds out that they are portrayed as human beings with rights and privileges. Such portrayal is determined by the attitude of their Masters or Madams. In Purple Hibiscus, the househelp shares in the subjugation of the family because of the harsh treatment of their father. In Half of a Yellow Sun and “Imitation”, the househelps participate in the decision making around food and emotional problems of their Masters and Madams. The author’s portrayal of the househelps brings into focus the need to accept this category of people as human beings to be valued. The literary theory that will inform the analysis of the texts is New Historicism propounded by Stephen Jay Greenbalt.
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Ghafar, Majid-Ul, Noor Nabi Khan, and Anwar Khan. "PORTRAYAL OF FEMALE IN PAKISTANI TV DARAMAS: A CASE STUDY OF HAZARA UNIVERSITY." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 04, no. 03 (September 30, 2022): 821–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v4i03.775.
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Present research study is based on survey technique to explore, explain and investigate media portrayal of female in Pakistani TV daramas. In this regard, focus of the research on portrayal of females in daramas that how females’ characters are portrayed in daramas. The population of the study was female students of Hazara University. The researcher used probability sampling technique for data collection. sample for this specific research study was 200 female students of Hazara University. Media dependency theory is the most relevant media effect theory with present research work. The data was collected by using standardized questionnaire. The empirical analysis of the data reveals that overall majority of the females of Hazara University watch different daramas and take keen interest in them. The exclusive analysis of the data also reveals that overall majority of the respondents use outfits in their daily routine life after watching daramas. Keywords: TV daramas, Female Portrayal, outfits, language, culture.
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Akpome, Aghogho. "Child and youth protagonists in Habila’s Measuring Time and Dangor’s Bitter Fruit." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 55, no. 2 (August 30, 2018): 4–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i2.1783.
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Helon Habila’s Measuring Time and Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit deploy child and youth protagonists to offer nuanced perspectives on contemporary nationhood in Nigeria and South Africa respectively, displacing the adult, and mostly male viewpoints that have dominated novelistic portrayals of postcolonial nationhood for decades. These protagonists are portrayed symbolically in the context of the biological family, which can be read in allegorical and metonymic ways to represent the nation as a social unit. This article explores the portrayal of these protagonists and their families for the ways in which they may reflect national anxieties in general, and the problems of recent socio-political transition in particular. It also highlights how the breakdown of the family, as well as the different pathways undertaken by characters may represent simultaneously dystopian and auspicious futures for Nigeria and South Africa.
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KAUR, DIPPANJEET, and SHEETAL THAPAR. "Media portrayal of women." ASIAN SCIENCE 9, no. 1and2 (December 15, 2014): 63–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.15740/has/as/9.1and2/63-68.
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Dooley, David. "Strachey's Portrayal of Manning." Chesterton Review 18, no. 4 (1992): 648–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chesterton1992184129.
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Isager, Christine, and Steffen Moestrup. "Portrayal by Inappropriate Interaction." Persona Studies 7, no. 1 (December 17, 2021): 77–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/psj2021vol7no1art1469.
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A close reading of three different profiles of Danish-Palestinian poet Yahya Hassan (1995-2020) showcases how interactions between journalists and subjects may become a mutual performative challenge and how, on such occasions, the personas of both parties may serve as a multi-layered journalistic resource in both an ethical and aesthetic sense. Applying the concept of “rhetorical maneuvers” (Phillips 2006) to describe reporters’ uses of an understated ‘first-person minor’ versus a demonstratively responsive ‘first-person major’ perspective (Phillips 2019), we highlight a principle that may reorient interview situations that are tense or out of control. The principle entails continuous shifts of subject form that are potentially inappropriate but enable both contextual transparency and a distinct textual structure or narrative style. By considering the mutual constitution and reconstitution of personas as rhetorical maneuvering we hope first to expand the analytical perspective of persona studies at the level of form while also, secondly, motivating journalists to explore the relational and interactive aspects of persona performances as a resource for occasional, productive disruption of their professional practice.
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Mason, Karen. "Portrayal of seasoned nurses." Critical Care Nurse 24, no. 4 (August 1, 2004): 15–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4037/ccn2004.24.4.15.
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witheld, Name. "Portrayal of telemetry nurses." Critical Care Nurse 27, no. 3 (June 1, 2007): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4037/ccn2007.27.3.19.
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Jones, Robert S. P., and Caroline B. Eayrs. "Newspaper Portrayal of Disability:." British Journal of Learning Disabilities 24, no. 2 (June 1996): 77–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3156.1996.tb00206.x.
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