Task 13

Detailed Essay Plan....

For my independent study i will be mainly focusing on 'how teenage girls are represented in mean girls (2004)' ...
Hypothesis: Mean girls represents stereotypical good and bad teenage girls....

i will discuss about the film and main characters that occur to my question... and compare with theorist and key words... i also will discuss the Migrain, wider context and any other information found upon internet and books will also be included.. included important quotes...

M
-Clothing "Plastics" match what they wore everyday by colour and style. - Feminine clothes used ei. mostly pink
- Parallel music/sounds throughout the film.
- Scenery based mainly at school.
I -Hollywood - Paramount Pictures
G -Comedy/Family
R-Good & bad teenage girls..how they have changed over the years...
A-teenage girls...
I-About teenage girls that are more interested in fashion, makeup, boys then education .who's most popular girls/boys, what extent girls would go just to be popular.
N- contains flashbacks to scenes showing no linear convention and also split screen of all the girls chatting on the phone...

Wider context....
Social: What teenage girls come across in today's society...
Historical: Shows how teenage girls have changed throughout the years...

References to other text Pre 1980's
Break fast club.. The film is similar to my independent studies as it is based in the same setting, at high school...
it has same same target audience, uses same conventions as in many teen movies... as mean girls uses many emotions break fast club use similar methods of portraying each characters persona's... along with all the social values , beliefs and morals that the films try to show to the audience... as well as it shows how teenage girls have changed compared to today's society...



Theorists
Propp - (Propp Viadimir 1995 - 1970)the propp is the characters role and narrative... This includes hero, villains... the hero being Cady and villain Regina...

Todrovain
Disequillbrium - Disequillibrium is when the equilibrium is challenged by an event causing it to unbalance the film, when cady gets revenge on ragina...

Resolution- This is the conclusion of a problem occured during the film which then gets resolved in the end..

Books
The Cinema Book 2nd Edition:Pam Cook& Mieke Bernink
Represenatation of women...

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...

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...


Websites

http://www.meangirls.com/indexflash.html

details of film...

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.....

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