What a stereotype is and examples of how they are represented.

What is a stereotype?
Stereotypes are typical generalized representations of a person which can be presented to the audience through the behaviour, attitude and the appearance of somebody. These are represented through to us in many ways which then reinforces to become a cruel belief in the society.

Not Another Teen Movie is one of the teen movies that presents stereotypes throughout the movie showing us the popular, perfect, geeky/intelligent, the fat guy and the cheerleader group.

The first representation we come across is the cheerleaders. Cheerleaders in movies, just like in this movie are always seen wearing their known jersey costumes with pompoms in their hands to perform a mini dance performance with. That is how we identify the cheerleaders in a teen movie in general. Examples from other teen movies that portray cheerleader are also; High School Musical and Mean Girls. 
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Another typical stereotype portrayed in Not Another Teen Movie are the far too intelligent geeks. We can identify the typical 'geeks' in teen movies because in most cases they tend to wear thick black glasses and mainly filmed in the school classrooms, studying hard whilst everybody else messes about with their lives, those whom have no intention of being successful.  Examples from other teen movies are, Katy in Mean Girls who is seen as a smart, isolated girl by others because she is intelligent enough to be alone without needing any bodies company. Social network also portrays the typical 'geek' as he is extremely bright.

 

Not Another Teen Movie also presents the popularity of certain characters in the movie. For example, we are able to spot them instantly by the reaction we receive from other characters facial expression  in the movie as they pass by. 'Popular individuals' (the group of girls) always tend to be together to present the fact that they are the popular ones in the school because they believe they've achieved something great when in fact, it's utter ignorance. This way, we are able to identify them in any teen movie such as; Mean Girls, Grease - Sandy and the Princess Diaries.

 

One other major stereotypes we see in teen movies including in Not Another Teen Movie are the 'perfect girls/girl' and they tend to be filmed in slow motion to draw attention to their charm and enthusiasm.They also are disrespectful individuals as we also can spot these from Mean girls again aswell as the Heather Girls which are both significant portrayals of 'perfectness'.

A final stereotype I've looked at was the 'fat guy' stereotype which occurs in Not Another Teen Movie aswell  as Meangirls (the over weighed boy) whom people mistreat because of his weight they do not take him seriously and always make fun of the individual because in the society's eyes, over weight people are worthless which again is a common in teen movies. The location they are filmed in are mainly in schools, humiliated in front of many people.