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were largely absent ... If society only sees us as these images, it means that our modern issues don't exist ... How can we be seen as modern, successful people, if we are continually represented as the leathered and feathered, vanishing race?
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are portrayed within mass media citing that between 1990 and 2000 there were 5,868 blockbuster release films of which:
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images and voices in mass media and the national consciousness".
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