Summary of Laura Mulvey...

A important move in the use of Psychoanalytical theory in media film studies when Laura Mulvey used ideas of Jacques Lacan to argue that in the classical Hollywood narrative the spectator is constructed as male in 1975. In the history of films males have always been the 'hero' or main character, and female characters have always been mainly to be looked at or or to be saved. Mulvey argues a invention of complex males fear revolving around castration anxiety, male charcters were typically active, investigative narrative agents inviting identification while female fugures in film Brigitte Bardot were fertishized as objects of male gaze.

Interim Report

i agree and disagree with my interim as i think i do put more effort in my work than less than satisfactory...yes i talk alot in class but it dont mean i dont put effort in my work and half the time i talk about what we are discussing in class... and im always on time iv'e never been late to media... so i think usually on time needs to be changed... I think my capablity to work independly is right i sometimes get distracted and start chatting away... also my writing and ideas are right as i do think im particually not very good in this area and needs to be improved...My grade im not goining to lie right but i think i should of got better... Overall im disappointed with my interim..However i will be improving and hopefully pull my grade up to a C...

Targets :

- Put more effort into my work...
- Improve vocab...
- Improve writing structure...

3 More Book Researchs

1) Media studies AS &A2:Bennett Jacquie:2005:university,cheltenham

pg 146 women and film....

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

3) Media studies AS &A2:Bennett Jacquie:2005:university,cheltenham
pg 94 Stereotypes

Links

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....

10 More Media Key Words....

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....

On Tuesday's lesson Me n my blog buddy Zara discussed more ideas that we could raise between both our independent studies...

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...

Blog Buddy Research...

As Me and Zara both looked at how women are representated, we both study on Laura Mulvey 'Male Gaze' theory. This website tells everything about Laura Mulvey theory in depth.

http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/womenstudies/flc436/mulvey.html