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'mainstream narratives' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to refer to the dominant stories or accepted beliefs of a particular group or society. For example: 'As a result of the manipulated mainstream narratives, many people have a skewed view of reality.'
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The modern pop zine's most popular subjects reflect the names that dominate mainstream media but they also reject mainstream narratives.
One reader, responding to something I recently wrote about Sundance, insisted both are corporate products — but really, these are mainstream narratives.
We don't get mainstream narratives inviting us to identify with women who like to dominate in bed, or mass-marketed portrayals of women of color and queer women as sexual heroines in control of their choices – likely because that would create more "free will" for women than the media bosses are really comfortable with.
The point is that, unlike the mainstream narratives we are used to, especially crime dramas, "We, the viewers, are promoted up the hierarchy of knowledge to a place just below the writer – a position identical to that of the audience in classical tragedy and comedy.
As much as people are seeing mainstream narratives about trans people in recent years, there are still a lot of trans people's stories that need to be told – the ones who never had the resources and support to emigrate to the United States.
The finding was in stark contrast to the images shaped in the mainstream narratives.
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Is this the future of mainstream narrative games?
The game unfolds in fits and starts, with none of mainstream narrative's orchestrated rhythms.
It provided rebels with more fuel, galvanised an increasingly sophisticated anti-fascist opposition and created a mainstream narrative that was dismissive of the BNP's prospects.
There is a lot of science fiction and fantasy, of course – these being the predominant genres in the realm of mainstream narrative gaming.
There is a dire need to challenge the current mainstream narrative – a worldview based on 20th century geopolitical distortions wholly unsuited to the 21st century.
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