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Chick Flicks

Collected by: Mount Dora High School

Archived since: Feb, 2017

Description:

Take a look into the behind the scenes of chick flicks, behind the romance and endless love stories, and see just how they play a role in influencing the world around us and even ourselves.

Subject:   Society & Culture Arts & Humanities Blogs & Social Media How Chick Flicks Influence Society

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Title: From Women to Chick: The Rhetorical Evolution of Women in American film

URL: http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2833/DAY-THESIS.pdf?sequence=1

Description: College Thesis by Dayna Day written in May, 2008, " This study explores feminine mythic archetypes in films from each phase and demonstrates that first, the era of the woman’s film presents traditional archetypes such as the Mother and the Wife; second, representation becomes more progressive in the new woman’s film of the 1970s through the influence of the women’s movement; third, representations regressed in the chick flick with the onset of post feminism in the late 1980s; and finally, through the rhetorical function of myth, the films serve a persuasive and explanatory function for audiences."

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Subject:   Women characters have drastically changed over a period of time in American films

Title: Why Clueless Is Still A Feminist Masterpiece 20 Years Later, Because There's More Than Meets The Eye When It Comes To Cher Horowitz

URL: http://www.bustle.com/articles/72133-why-clueless-is-still-a-feminist-masterpiece-20-years-later-because-theres-more-than-meets-the

Description: Although Clueless may seems like just another chick flick about fashion and popularity, there is more to it that what meets the eye. The film discusses female friendship and empowerment, including not shaming your friends for their own choices in life and being there for them when they need you most. The cast is also very diverse, proving that anyone can be friends with eachother, no matter your ethnicity, sexuality, or background.

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Subject:   A discussion of the feminist and socially progressive aspects of "Clueless".

Title: How the Demise of the Romantic Comedy Will Affect Women

URL: http://www.indiewire.com/2014/02/how-the-demise-of-the-romantic-comedy-will-affect-women-240726/

Description: This article describes the consequences of a potential decrease in the production of romantic comedies. The author states that romantic comedies have given women important roles in our film industry and society. Through this article, the author explains why chick flicks are helpful to women in our society, a point that is not generally recognized in this collection's other articles.

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Subject:   How women's inclusion in film depends on the production of chick flicks.

Title: The dangers of romantic comedies

URL: http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-rodriguez29-2008dec29-column.html

Description: This article was written by a Los Angeles Times writer who is somewhat skeptical of the idea that romantic comedy films have a negative impact on people's relationships or their perceptions about love. The author wrote this artical as a rebuttle of a Scottish University study that made such a claim. What makes this article unique is the author's change of perception concerning this topic's legitimacy. The author goes from doubting this claim, to causally supporting through the stating of facts that he found while pressumably researching facts about this industry. While still treating the concept with laissez-faire sense of urgency, the author admits that the University's arguemnet has some fair points.

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Subject:   The flase perceptions of love and relationships that chick flicks perpetuate.

URL: http://www.laweekly.com/news/who-killed-the-romantic-comedy-4464884/

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Title: 10 Things I Learned from 'Legally Blonde'

URL: http://www.livingly.com/True+Life/articles/c2_uS2Njpaq/10+Things+Learned+Legally+Blonde/

Description: Legally Blonde is a ground-breaking film amongst many generations because of how it depicts females and breaking standards that society has set. The film shows that with hard work and determination, anyone can do anything. The film also teaches young girls to believe in themselves, and that it's okay to be different if it means being yourself.

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Subject:   Although Chick Flicks have been given a bad reputation, some can actually positively influence and inspire young women in society today. An example of an influential Chick Flick is called 'Legally Blonde.' 'Legally Blonde' is a movie about Elle Woods, a young woman who defies the stereotype "dumb blonde" and becomes a lawyer.

Title: Wary Hollywood Plans More Chick Flicks (Hoping to Lure the Guys)

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/movies/09roma.html

Description: The article written by Michael Cieply April 9, 2008 explains the “parlor game” chick flicks are when it comes to pleasing both genders. “Trying to pin down what, exactly, constitutes a supposed chick flick is more of a parlor game than a science. “An Affair to Remember,” in which Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr played star-crossed lovers, clearly makes the cut. “Knocked Up,” in which Ms. Heigl and Seth Rogen played a star-crossed couple of another sort, probably does not.”

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Subject:   A Discussion Pertaining to Gender-Divisive Themes of Most Chick Flicks

Title: What ‘Mean Girls’ Taught Us

URL: http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/film/what-%E2%80%98mean-girls%E2%80%99-taught-us

Description: Mean Girls has remaines a very influential movie amongst teenage girls, mailnly foucusing on the fitting in and creating a false image of what you have to be in order to be "cool". Mean Girls has a positive effect on high school girls in that it makes them realize how meaningless poularity is. Through various types of characters, Mean Girls makes young girls realize that personality is what really counts when trying to find where you fit in.

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Subject:   A woman Learned life lessons by watching "Mean Girls".

Title: Pondering the Chick Flick

URL: http://www.womensmediacenter.com/feature/entry/pondering-the-chick-flick

Description: Article by Melissa Silverstein, written on March 23, 2009. Tells of the rapid decline of Chick Flicks. Chick Flicks, according to Silverstein are degrading women. Men laugh at the one dimensional Woman who faces a conflict with another women. This leads to the distaste men have for chick flicks and resulting in the decline of sales in the women based films.

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Subject:   The harmful perception of women that chick flicks encourage.

Title: Why Clueless Is Still A Feminist Masterpiece 20 Years Later, Because There's More Than Meets The Eye When It Comes To Cher Horowitz

URL: https://www.bustle.com/articles/72133-why-clueless-is-still-a-feminist-masterpiece-20-years-later-because-theres-more-than-meets-the

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Title: 10 Reasons I Don't Watch Chick Flicks Anymore

URL: https://www.girldefined.com/10-reasons-watch-chick-flicks-anymore

Description: This is a critical blog on the topic of chick flicks that explains why its author stopped watching typical romanantic comedy films. The author of this blog briefly outlines the dangers that chick flicks can have on our society by disccussing research and general analysises that support her claim. One analysis that the author makes in this blog is that girls typically have a desire to experience a sweet or love related stories, a point she uses to make the allusion of chick flicks wrongfully taking advantage of this fact. The author of this blog then goes on to list ten specific reasons for her stance against this genre of film and eventually elaborates on some of these points. One unique qaulity about this blog is that it was it is written in the view of a person who embodies judeo-christian values, a trait that fuels the author's critisisms of the many cliches that chick flicks usually praise and embody, such as rebelling against one's parents or the practicing of promiscuity. These points concerning our society's morality are rarely made in other pieces that focus on this subject, as many of the ones I examined actually flawed these films as not positively depicting these inarguably consequnetial actions enough. The author of this blog does a great job of making this her arguement's strong point, as she suggests that the immoral actions that are often conducted by the characters in the these films are far more damaging to easily influenced auidences than false images of prince charmings and love at first sightings are.

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Subject:   Many studies have been tested on Chick Flicks, which have proven to give young women false expectations about love and are filled with lies

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