Monday, 26 November 2007
Sunday, 25 November 2007
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/
this website has main features of the film.. it has details on the character and on the film it also provides a trailer of the film and explains the main storyline of the film.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Girls
This is another website which is useful as it explains more about the film outline... and similar texts made by same producer for example clueless...
http://www.meangirls.com/indexflash.html
this is a link to a mean girl website which features of the film.. back stage scenes...get to know more about the movie and images from the film making is also on there....
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/1105?cpn=20061101pa1
This link explains how and why teenage girls are so mean...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/quotes
This is a website were the famous quotes ... which may be helpful ...
http://www.amit.org.il/learning/english/stereotypesUnit10.htm
this is a link to stereotypes of women ...
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_girls.cfm
This website explains stereotypes of teenage girls....
Celebrity...
This is an individual who becomes the center of attention for the audience, and is becomes well known and established to the public...
Feminism ...
political movement to advance the status of women by challenging values, social constructions and socioeconomic practices which disadvantage women and favour men...
Closure...
The state of psycholocical harmony acieved when issues causing concern or distress to an indvidual are resolved and anxiety is removed or reduced as a good .. at the end of the film there was a happy ending as the girls went there on ways and got on with lives and everyone was happy...
Insituation...
Any of the organizations responsible for the production, marketing, distribution or regulation of media texts.. Mean girls is distributed by paramount pictures...
Femme Fatale...
A female character who uses her sexuality, often in devious, disreputable, secretive ways, to achieve the end she desires..In Mean Girls Regina uses her sexuality to take away Kady's lover....
Male Gaze...
Laura Mulvey theory on how males see females from there point of view ... for eample Regina shown as a sex object....
we discovered two main areas such as stereotypes and feminism...
As we both are analyzing are teenagers... as Zara's independent study is more on young youth in general but my study is more specifically on teenage girls.. so we discussed that we could relate our studies both too stereotypes of teenagers...we also thought that as both are text are showing how females are shown from the past and how they have changed over they years and how they are portrayed in today's society .... the last area we thought we look at was how celebrity are portrayed in our independent studies following the theorists of dyer.. how they need celebrities to gain more audiences and also to make the film more well known...
Monday, 19 November 2007
Monday, 12 November 2007
BOOK RESEARCH
1 The New feminism.Walter, Natasha 1998, Lancaster Place, London
Describes how women have changed over the years and how they were back in the day and how in todays society gradually changing...
2 Media Studies reader Tim O Sullivan & Yvonne Jewkes 1997, London
pg146 - 154 representation of females...
3 Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture - Joanne Hollows 2000 Manchester Uiversity
pg 38 womans in films...
4 Gauntlet David 2002:Media, Gender and Identity, An Introduction USA +Canada
pg 9 -12 Femininity...
pg 3 - men and women today
chapter 3 representation of gender in the past...
pg 42- 50 - women and men on TV AND women and men in movies....
pg 252- popular feminism women and men...
5 Sullivan O Tim, Dutton Brain, Rayner Phillip 2003: Studying the Media 3rd Edition, GB
pg 59 - film stars...
pg 78 stereotypes...
6 Hartley John 2002: Communication, Culture and media Studies, USA+Canada
pg 202 - representation...
pg 215 -stereotypes...
7 Casey Bernadette, Casey Neil, Calvor Ben, French Liam and Lewis Justin 2002:Televison Studies,USA +Canada
pg 95 - 98 -Feminism...
pg 255-260 - women in television...
Dyer 1993
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
My blog buddy from the other class is karina... as we both are doing the same text and similarly question.. we both can help each other as we both looking at the same aspect of the texts how teenage girls are represented...