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PART I: UNDERSTANDING STEREOTYPES

Chapter 1: Prologue

  • 1.1 The Context
  • 1.2 The Scope
  • 1.3 The Methodology
  • 1.4 The Structure

Chapter 2: Why Do Stereotypes Exist?

  • 2.1 Introduction: Social Identity
  • 2.2 Social Categorisation
  • 2.3 Stereotypes
  • 2.4 Stereotype Properties
  • 2.5 Bottom-up and Top-down Stereotyping
  • 2.6 Stereotype Activation and Application
  • 2.7 Consequences of Stereotypes
  • 2.8 Conclusion

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

PART II: ANALYSING STEREOTYPES

Chapter 4: Types of Others

  • 4.1 Introduction: Classifying Media Stereotypes
  • 4.2 The Primitive Other
  • 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

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

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
  • 6.7 Media Analysis: Aesthetic Stereotypes
  • 6.8 Media Analysis: Socio-cultural Context
  • 6.9 Conclusion

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

Chapter 8: Perspective-taking

  • 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

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
  • 9.6 The Shared Ingroup Category
  • 9.7 Case Study: Africa with Ade Adepitan
  • 9.8 Extended Cross-group Intimacy
  • 9.9 Conclusion

Chapter 10: Recategorisation

  • 10.1 Introduction: The Common Ingroup
  • 10.2 The Common Ingroup Category
  • 10.3 The Universal Common Ingroup
  • 10.4 De-emphasising Differences
  • 10.5 The Dual Identity
  • 10.6 Precluding Ingroup Projection in Dual Identity
  • 10.7 Outgroups without Stigmatising Stereotypes
  • 10.8 Outgroups with Stigmatising Stereotypes
  • 10.9 Conclusion

Chapter 11: Decategorisation

  • 11.1 Introduction: The Individual Identity
  • 11.2 Differentiation
  • 11.3 Differentiation by Ambiguity
  • 11.4 Differentiation by Contrast
  • 11.5 Personalisation
  • 11.6 Personalisation through Self-other Comparison
  • 11.7 Personalisation through Self-disclosure
  • 11.8 The Filmmaker’s Perspective
  • 11.9 Conclusion

Chapter 12: Epilogue

  • 12.1 Summary
  • 12.2 Condition and Risks
  • 12.3 Using Stigmatising Stereotypes
  • 12.4 Final Thoughts
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