Media text 2 - gossip girl.

Gossip Girl.
-Teen Drama. 
-What kind of show is it? Similar or different to PLL?
-How are women represented? (always looking their best to maintain their popular girl image)  ~ [relate to blair and serena.] -types of costume etc.. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8Q6m0_dBA

Mulvey's Male gaze : blair is dancing for chuck and removing her clothes. How does this present girls? how would the audience be affected?
- Does it reinforce or challenge traditional stereotypes? ~ dominant or alternative?
- How does the way they are represented in GG differ from PLL?

This image shows that these teenage girls are represented as sexually provocative girls who act older than they are and who are dependent on men. The girls in this image are showing a lot of skin; one girl is even wearing only a bra and her underwear. The rest are wearing dresses that have thin straps and one is wearing a dress without straps. They’re all wearing very revealing and promiscuous clothes which objectifies them as sexual objects and are lying on a bed – something considered sexual. 
 - Both the Male gaze (mulvey) and Female gaze (gill) can be applied here as all the teens, both boys and girls look sexually provocative. The way Chuck 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2895670/Gossip-Girl-s-Leighton-Meester-happy-known-feminist.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_Girl
https://emlex04.wordpress.com/category/gossip-girl/