The Fight For Acceptance, Film, And The Other Products Of Media Culture

In Mean Girls (2004), Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a new student at North Shore High School. Throughout the film we hear the narration of Cady and witness the Bildungsroman of her character. Bildungsroman is known as “a specific subgenre of coming-of-age stories that focus on the protagonist’s psychological and moral growth. Hence, character change is extremely important” (Kusina, 2015). She has a major culture shock when she goes from being homeschooled in Africa to being a part of the most popular clique in school: “The Plastics”. In the beginning of the movie, Cady could be described as nerdy, awkward, and a typical home schooled “virgin”. She makes friends with Damian (Daniel Franzese) and Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan) who tell her all about the politics of their high school. Janis and Damian give their outsider perspective multitudes of cliques at their high school.

When analyzing the theme in the film Mean Girls, plot can be used to support the theme, making fun of others won’t make you feel better about yourself.

Mean Girls is a teen fiction movie that focuses on the lives of high school students. Each of the main character is seen within the first ten minutes of the movie, showing just a little piece of each character’s personality and depicts the overall high school society. The

The Netflix documentary Miss Representation by Jennifer Siebel Newsom explores how the media contributes to influence the young girls and boys in America. Every day in America we are showed this unrealistic look of what the so-called perfect image of women is supposed to be from the TV shows we watch, the movies we see, to the magazines we read, to the online social media outlets we visit. This documentary shows the negative effects it's having on teenage boys and girls in America, Miss Representation interweaves between the stories of teenage girls, telling their own experiences and how the media has portrayed the image of women to them. They share their stories from pressures they feel they have to live up too from how the media shows them

Deciding what is most important in life is often a struggle, especially during high school. Mean Girls is a teen comedy film loosely based on the self-help book titled Queen Bees and Wannabes. The main character is a high school student named Cady that just moved from Africa and has been homeschooled her whole life. The American culture and society she is introduced to is embodied by the Plastics, who are the most popular girls at North Shore High: Regina, Gretchen, and Karen. The pressure put on Cady by society causes her to struggle to decide what her priorities should be. Mean Girls criticizes the traditional notions of femininity that are expected of women, as they are not required for them to be successful and accomplished.

Mean Girls is a critically acclaimed movie known for its benevolent satire that circulates around the reality and cruelty of high school life featuring social status, class, gender and race in today’s society.

When analyzed on a sociological level, the movie Mean Girls demonstrates the difference between certain aspects of society within different cultures. In the movie, Cady Heron, the main character, moves from Africa, after living there for twelve years to Evanston and begins attending North Shore High School. Cady is not familiar with the customs of a North American high school and the hierarchical social structures within it. She quickly associates herself with a group of girls referred to as “The Plastics” who hold a high degree of power in the school and they start influencing Cady in unfavourable ways. This paper will discuss the sociological factors of the movie Mean Girls.

In the movie Mean Girls, many different social psychology traits were displayed. The traits displayed included different parenting styles, role identity, and much more. The movie Mean Girls was based on 16 year old girl named Cady who has been homeschooled her whole life, and is thrown into a public high school. She begins to get involved with the schools popular groups called “The Plastics”, from here things escalate causing Cady to move in the wrong direction. This movie depicts some exaggerated, but very real situations that high schoolers today face every day.

In Miss Representation, many female actresses, news anchors, politicians, directors and producers talk about how females suffer a lot of social, political and economic inequalities in today’s society. There are double standards against women in magazines, on TV, in movies, the news, politics, and the workplace. The media is an influential part of modern culture. When women are portrayed as objects for men to use -- never as the protagonist or president -- and when female news anchors are objectified, this will cause girls of all ages to begin viewing themselves as objects. Girls grow up in a world where their voice does not count; where our culture does not embrace them in all of their diversities, where

Mean girls is a very influential movie in America and the majority of people have either watched it or know what it entails. Many people see this movie as a funny satirical and exaggerated take on American high school but in reality it has a much deeper meaning to it. The movie revolves around a transfer student ,Cady, who had grown up in Africa and was home schooled her entire life. It shows her pretending to be friends with the popular group “The Plastics” so that she can find out their secrets and report back to her other, less popular friends. However, in the end she becomes sucked into the group and starts to treat everyone else in the same horrible ways The Plastics do.

Mark Water’s teen comedy film Mean girls is a rather exaggerated film eluding to the portrayal of adolescent behavior is modern society, particularly focusing on how female high school social cliques work and the effect that it has on other girls with characters such as Regina George, Cady Heron, Gretchen Wieners, Aaron Samuels, and Janis Ian. Mean Girls is an

When trying to manipulate Jason, she is almost sarcastic and says things she clearly does not agree with: “But we women are what we are – perhaps a little worthless; and you men must not be like us in this, nor be foolish in return when we are foolish.”

“Mean Girls” is about a 16 year-old girl named Cady Heron. She was homeschooled by her zoologist parents in Africa. After a 12-year research trip in Africa, Cady and her family moved to the United States and settled in Evanston, Illinois. Here Cady attended public school for the first time ever. Cady’s first day of high school was not what she expected, she did not find any friends and the people at the school were unwelcoming. On her second day of school two classmates, Janis and Damian, took her under their wing to guide her how the high school worked. Both Janis and Damian warn her about ‘The Plastics’ who were the most exclusive clique in their high school. The Plastics consisted of their queen bee Regina George, the insecure rich girl Gretchen Wieners and sweet but ditzy Karen Smith. The Plastics seemed to take interest of Cady and make the decision to invite her to eat lunch with them. Now that Cady was becoming one of The Plastics, Janis creates a plan to get revenge on Regina, using her as the spy.

Culture can be defined as so many thing. But the one trait that seems to stick around is that it is an art of human creations that is passed on from generation to generation. Cultural scene that is portrayed in the movie Mean Girls is people with different backgrounds sitting together in a cafeteria. Cady who lived in africa for 15 years represents one cultural scene. The way she compares everything from when she was in Africa is the reason that differentiate her from the rest of the group. She is considered to be an outsider. High School is the starting place where people start to question and understand themselves. Mean girls is based on people with different kind of standard approaching the scene of High School. People sit together with

Over 400 hundred years there has been slavery, racism, and discrimination in America with blacks, and other minorities. A famous man once said “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word” – Martin Luther King Jr (brain quote). The movies ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ directed by Spike Lee, and ’12 Years a Slave’ directed by Steve McQueen both show the struggle African Americans went through during a tough racial period in American history. Even today in Modern society African Americans still deal with racism. Spike