Teen films and TV shows often follow same the conventions though depicting a popular girl who breaks up with a jock‚ which flows the jock falling in love with the outsider. In this genre the shows and movies shallow but they are a genre which teenagers can relate to. The movie Mean Girls‚ and the television shows Gossip Girl‚ and One Tree Hill‚ all follow the conventions of the teen genre while reflecting situations which teenagers face on a regular basis. Although teen movies and TV shows follow
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Long Vu / November 17‚ 2012 / Women Studies / Sally Winkle / Film Analysis Mean Girls In Mean Girls‚ the main character is Lindsay Lohan who plays the role of a 15 year old high school student‚ Cady Heron. Cady is The 15-year-old‚ Africa-raised high school girl begins her high school life by learning what it’s like to be a normal girl by making friends and talking about other classmates. The first thing the students thought when they heard there was a new transfer student in class from Africa
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A Plastic in Disguise This movie‚ Mean Girls‚ is a very interesting movie that shows that you should always be yourself no matter what people think and no matter what they have to say. A few of the main characters in this movie include Cady Heron‚ Regina George‚ Karen Smith‚ Gretchen Weiners‚ and Ms. Norbury. All of these characters take part in the high school that the film take place in. The director of this movie is Mark Waters; he is a film director and producer. This movie was published in
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I’ve seen it all. This is why the movie “Mean Girls” directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey was a perfect choice for my independent study. I’m going to be talking about how cliques define you‚ how friends betray you‚ and how you can easily change yourself to fit in with a group though it may not be your smartest idea. The movie “mean girls” is an accurate portrayal of how rough high school can be‚ and more specifically how horrible teenage girls can be. Cady Heron played by Lindsay Lohan
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Austin Ruggieri May 2‚ 2012 Adolescence Mean Girls The movie Mean Girls is about a girl who has grown up in Africa and was homeschooled all of her life‚ named Cady. She is a 16-year-old white girl who has to learn how to adapt and change to her new environment‚ which is in a suburban area and a new completely average high school. Cady already knows that the laws of the jungle and the survival of the fittest but must now understand how to play in this brand new urban jungle. When she arrives
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interesting in this film was that if you don’t have a son and you have a daughter in china‚ people will look down on you because sons are the ones who carry on the family name. The word that I think goes well with this is the word patriarchy. Patriarchy is men-as-a-group dominating women-as-a-group; authority is vested in males. This goes well because if the female doesn’t not have a boy the men will shame them. There are 13 million more young boys in china right now than girls. If women do not
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Text Analysis In the popular movie Mean Girls‚ Lindsay Lohan plays a confused teenager struggling her way through high school hierarchy. Her character‚ Cady‚ is a transfer student that finds herself in a place where everyone is categorized in some kind of group‚ whether it be jocks‚ art freaks‚ or something else. Some of the cliques were seen as more powerful than others‚ but each had some kind of reputation. The movie can be analyzed in the Marxist perspective‚ wherein the text shows who is
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Davidson Clark English 1301 16 June 2011 Popularity: Doing It the Right Way Girls in today’s society feel the need to fit in amongst their peers. They often search for ways to have more friends in school. A person involving themselves in school or community activities is the healthy way to do so. Ways such as the ones seen in the modern day movie‚ Mean Girls‚ unnecessarily corrode a person and the people around them. Girls feel the need to degrade others‚ in order for them to come out on top. This
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Title:Mean Girls Director: Type: Movie Genre: social realism‚ American teen The scandalous lives of a teenager was accurately portrayed throughout the movie ‘Mean Girls’ directed by: Mark Waters. The story follows a teenage girl named Cady Heron as she is starting her first day at high school after being home schooled in Africa for most of her life. Cady learns about the ins and outs of high school life and the cliques that are found throughout the school with the help of her two new friends
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scientific knowledge. Looking through films you can see many sociological themes. I chose to look at “Mean Girls” and pull the sociological themes out. Mean Girls is a movie about a girl‚ Cady‚ who moves to the US from Africa and starts at a new school. She immediately befriends two outcasts‚ who explain the school ’s social scene. There are a group of three girls (the “Plastics”) who are popular‚ malicious and rule the school. As a trick‚ these three girls befriend Cady. Her outcast friends encourage
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