Teen Movie Stereotypes

American culture has a variety of stereotypes that “define” our culture. From the stuck up cheerleaders in high school to the working middle class white collared males in an office setting. America perceive different race, ethnicity and even class groups through heavy stereotypes. In the movie Not Another Teen Movie, shows these different stereotypes about high school and teenagers through their groups/class and race. Many teen movies depict the standard high school setting and typically white or suburban high school. These movies tend to go against stereotypes and show a brighter side of high school. For example High School Musical displayed a typically high school love story between to Troy and Gabriella. They were not apart the same “group” in their high school. Troy was a jock and hung out with the popular group of students and Gabriella was a smart and hung out with the more smart and nerdy group of students. In the end true love prevails and bring the two young couple together even though they were from different social groups. In Not Another Teen Movie it shows all the normal stereotypes that are connected with the high school setting such as the jock having a cheerleading as a girlfriend, the horny freshman boys, the different groups with in the high school and the race to be prom queen. This movie is good to show different stereotypes in high schools in America but also it shows how the body and the male gaze is always displayed in this movie also.

Not Another Teen Movie is a satire and purposefully depicts different stereotypes throughout the movie. The movie pick several different movies to imitate and show the stereotypes of these movie or what individuals usually think about a certain group, class or race. A big stere...

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...Jake took Janie to a popular party but first he had too fix her look. Another stereotype that is depicted in the movie is popular girls are thin and shape very perfectly and in order for Janie to be perceived as popular was to change her clothes and hair to fit in to that stereotype. Once dressed for the party and many other scenes after her transformation Janie is no longer looked at the same from the camera. The make gaze come into effect when she gets her new appearance. While walking down the start the camera reduces Janie to only legs and hips before eventually showing her face. According to Robert Burriss “Eye-tracking has been profitably applied to the investigation of sexual preferences and attention across multiple studies, facilitating the measurement of attention to different body parts, such as the waist, hips, breasts, pubic area, and face”(Burriss 21).