Not Another Teen Movie
Stereotype: A
widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. A stereotype is used to categorise a group of people.
Not another teen movie adopts many stereotypes of the type of people in high schools for example:
Here are some examples of these stereotypes
This is an example of a stereotype of The Nasty/Slutty Cheerleader. This stereotype is shown by the cheerleader costumes that are worn in the movie, the props and even the hair and intelligence (the lead cheerleader is always blonde and usually dumb)
The Popular Jock is always shown as the good looking arrogant guy who usually plays sports. They wear baseball jackets and get all the pretty girls.
The Pretty Ugly Girl, wears clothes that are unflattering and wears glasses however, without them she would be beautiful. She doesn't follow the norms of popularity and is usually shy.
The token black guy is usually not the main character but is friends to one of the main characters, he is usually funny and has his own catch phrases.
Other stereotypes include the nerd who is very intelligent and unpopular usually wears geeky clothes and the popular girl who everyone wishes to be like.
Intertextuality is the shaping of a text meaning by another text. For example a parody.
Not another teen movie uses several previous teen movies and their formed stereotypes to make their own, they make a parody.
Another teen movie uses movies such as 10 Things I Hate About You, Almost Famous, American Beauty, American Pie, Better Off Dead, The Breakfast Club, Bring It On and many more to over exaggerate stereotypes and humour the audience.
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