Task 7 Key Words

Celebrity
An individual who has become the focus of media attention and is therefore widely known and recognised by the public..This related to my independant study as Lindsay Lohan is the celebrity in the movie and became even moe famous then she was once she had done this movie
Closure
The state of psycholocical harmony acieved when issues causing concern or distress to an indvidual are resolved and anxiety is removed or reduced..In the ed of Mean Girls the girls all go their seperate ways into other groups where they feel more happier and comfortable so everyone is happy at the end
Determinism
The marxist concept that individuls and istitutions have no choice in their behaviour because theirdecisions are shaped by socioeconomic forces beyond their control..The 'Plastics' are alll made to act in the same way due to the way they are shaped by society
Fabulation
The construction of moralising stories about the origin of conflict in society and the positive resolution of that conflict..This is kind of related to my idependant study, when Reginas's sister is watching an inappropriate music video and her mum and sister let her watch it
Femme Fatale
In the french film noir theory, a female charachter who uses her sexuality, often in devious, disreputable, secretive ways, to acheive the end she desires..In Mean Girls Regina uses her sexuality to take away Kady's crush from her, she is devious and is the villian of the film
Iconography
The distinguishing elements, in terms of props and visual details, which characterise genre..for example in mean girls it is sset mainly in a high school, just like any other teen movie, also there is alot of pink suggesting it to be a chick flick
Institution
Any of the organisations responsible for the production, marketing, distribution or regulation of mdia exts..Mean girls is distributed by paramount pictures a wide american institution suggesing a wide audience therefore heavy influence upon comsumers
Marxism Feminism
Ideology derived from the writings of the socialist Karl Marx. A feminist perspective which sees capitalism as the principal source of gendre inequalities..The plastics and Kady are all doing what they are doing due to a guy that they like and that they want, The ideology that females lives evolve around guys
Representation
The process whereby the medi construct versions of people, places and events in images, words or sound for transmission through media texts to an audience..Female teenagers are beingrepresented as bimbo's and girls that are all the same and have nothing different about them, also that thier lives evolve around boys etc..
Stereotype
The social classification of a group of people by identifying common charachteristics and universally applying them in an often oversimplified and generalised way, such that the classification represents the value judgements and assumptions about the group concerned..In mean girls the girls are stereotyped in a negative way and their stereotypes are bought out alot in mean girls