Key words

Stereotype
The social classification of a group of people by identifying common characteristics and universally applying them in an often oversimplified and generalized way.In mean girls the female teenagers are stereotyped as ditzy and all into their looks

Mulvey Laura
Feminist academic and media and film critic, responsible for developing theories of the male gaze.In mean girls the girls are dressed in a way to be looked at by males

Antagonist
The principal opposing figure or villain in the narrative.Regina George is the villian

Feminism
A Movement in which encounters the challenging of female roles, social constructions. This includes the fact of women being able to do more in the society and to be able and excepted in doing them. Female roles are challenged in the end of the movie by Kady (Lindsay Lohan)

Representation
Representation is where the media has identification for an individual. E.g. Representations provides us with a description of a gender, social groups, and individuals. Mean girls are represented as rich spoilt teenagers who love pink

Cosmopolitan
Magazine Cosmopolitan is a magazine, which encounters a ‘typical’ lifestyle of the woman nowadays. This magazine shows of the ‘new woman’ with career opportunities and making it focus on her and not the fact of having you life revolve around a man. This is reinforced by the endong of the movie

Chick Flick
A chick flick is a film which is targeted at female teenagers.chcik flicks main purpose is to entertain, with a bit of romance. it usually focusses mostly on teenage girls lifestyles. Mean girls is targeted towards teenage girls

Propp
(Propp Viadimir 1995 - 1970)the propp is the charcters role and narrative... This includes hero, villians, the helper of the hero, fake hero, a princess etc... the hero being Cady and villian Regina

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

Split screen
A split screen is a editing technique, this is where the screen is split into 2 or more showing the same scene in one frame. With all the girls on the phone to eachother this is when shown in splitscreen