Gossip Girl is a television show that follows the lives of five teens living in New York City. Throughout the show, there is a narrator who is simply known as Gossip Girl that follows the teens around the city and knows all of their secrets. Their secrets, which are revealed on Gossip Girl’s website, deal with many things ranging from sexuality to family life. Sexuality is a major element on the show. The five teens are constantly changing who they date in the same manner in which they change
In Gossip Girls, Serena and Blair fits perfectly in stereotype roles, but compare to them Vanessa and Jenny is opposite of those two. They have different characteristics that led to having stertypical characteristics. Why do Serena and Blair fits perfectly into stereotypes? It is because they are introduced as stertypical wealthy girls. If people think of wealthy girls, they think of pretty, wealthy, powerful, living off parents, and rich white girls. So, why does those two characters in the show
Gossip Girl is a Television show that illustrates the lives of the higher class striving in the Upper East side of Manhattan. The characters live a classy life anyone would dream to have, so they may think. This ideal life is centered around the importance of social class and wealth that it drives the characters to turn against each other. It brings light to the fact that the poor are ignored and only the issues of the elite are welcomed. Although many people enjoy Gossip Girl, it is centered around
Gossip Girl, a television show based on Cecily von Ziegesars’ book series, follows the lives of a group of high society, privileged teenagers from the Upper East Side of Manhattan. In the series, the character Gossip Girl, is a mysterious, all-knowing blogger with a secret identity who reveals everyone’s darkest and most scandalous secrets (TV Guide). Through the use of her website and constant text message updates, all of Manhattan’s elite are subject to exposure via Gossip Girl. Regardless of how
“Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite.” I speak from personal experience when I say these opening words, proclaimed at the beginning of every Gossip Girl episode, engrain themselves in the minds of teenage female viewers. As each episode progresses, these words introduce reoccurring concepts of gossip, drama and fashion, while featuring strong female protagonists depicted as seemingly independent, sexually empowered consumers. Yet these characters
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama set in New York Upper East Side and tells the story of privileged upper class young adults, as they battle sex, drugs, alcohol, relationships and betrayal. Narrated by an infamous incognito, who blogs the lives and drama of Manhattans elite. The series was wrote in a series of novels by Cecily von Ziegesar and produced by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. The show begins with the sentence "Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives
movie industries. One of the most loved categories of TV show is teen drama. There might be a lot of popular teen drama television shows but for different reasons I pick “Gossip Girls” as the best TV show that I have watched. This particular TV show have a lot of fans around the world and a lot of people follow the gossip girls page on Instagram and twitter. The main reasons why I chose this show as the best one is because the characters are interesting and so are the situations they get into. The
From high school girls desperately trying to be one of cool kids in school to corporate warriors rubbing elbows for that next promotion, nearly everyone has fantasized about being a part of the “in crowd”. What is it that makes the bonds and barriers of “in crowd” so unbreakable? Through sharing stories and reaching conclusions through discussion of those stories, members of small groups develop a common bond that shapes their social reality. An example of this bond is prominent in the CW’s hit show
Learn From Gossip Girl- Don’t Dismiss Five characters. Promiscuity. Drugs. Sex. Reckless decisions and choices. Six Seasons. This is what viewers perceive the show Gossip Girl as, but underneath this layer lies a message that people can identify with. Gossip Girl brings to life the world that Cecily Von Ziegesar created - the world of glitz and glamour becomes a newfound reality. The countless lavish parties, Debutante Balls, endless rumors and teenage romances escape the pages of the books that
they know it. Blair Waldorf is the ringleader of the crew, which includes her handsome but weak-hearted boyfriend, Nate. This femme fatale in training relishes her role and is confident that she and Nate will be together forever. Then the teen every girl loves to hate, Serena Van der Woodson, returns from her Connecticut boarding school, and the young women start fuming. Serena is beautiful and charming, and could unknowingly steal the hearts of brothers and boyfriends -- and she and Nate have a secret
feminism. How television interprets feminism is, for the most part, how the rest of the public will as well. Since television plays such a large part in influencing the public, this paper will aim to see if specifically the television series Gossip Girl has an attitude that gives off a negative view of feminism. In order to examine this question there must be an understanding of what feminism is. Since feminism has changed so much over the years, the three different waves need to be looked at
sex. Many books have been challenged and banned throughout history. One series has had every single book within the series banned in some locations; there are thirteen books in the series. Gossip Girl, written by Cecily von Ziegesar, is one of the most challenged and/ or banned books in recent years. Gossip Girl has been challenged and/ or banned for multiple reasons including: sex, drugs, and scandals. There is a difference between banned books and challenged books. According to the American Library
stereotypes that have become too universally accepted.” (Syed, Sania. The Princeton Summer Journal) The television series “Gossip Girl” is novel based and revolves around a group of snobby, privileged, prep school students that live in the Upper East Side of New York. These teens travel, attend social events, shop at high-end stores, and basically do
The cultural phenomenon that is the television show Gossip Girl is centered around the extravagant lives of privileged Manhattanites, and how the cluster of main characters are constantly falling in and out of love. Viewers of the show can be found all across the globe; as of 2012, the show had been broadcast in 197 countries. The show was declared by New York Magazine the “Best Show Ever”. With the reviews in and the show declared a success, there is still one nagging question: why? Why is the show
popular television show Gossip Girl had Machiavelli in mind. Machiavelli and Gossip Girl as a whole complement each other in their focus on man’s lack of morals, and their ability to create paranoia as well as persuade others to follow their lead. Human nature is greedy and self-interested. At least that is what Machiavelli might have said. The television show Gossip Girl, plays on this imperfection of man, through revealing the scandals of New York City’s royalty. “Gossip Girl here, your one and only
“And who am I? That’s one secret I will never tell….You know you love me xoxo Gossip Girl”. Gossip Girl, an anonymous blogger, gives people minute to minute updates on the scandalous lives of the Manhattan Elite. The audience never finds out who Gossip Girl is, until the last Gossip Girl episode made. Like the powerful anonymous blogger Gossip Girl, Alloy Incorporated, the owners of the show, is an influential company whose identity goes unnoticed. Even if one spend years studying the field, the
Gossip Girl Imagine having a girl who has ruined your life return to you school to try and ruin it some more. Well in the book Gossip Girl, the main character Blair has a so called “friend” who is trying to have all of the attention on her and will make everyone’s lives miserable to get it. The puritans would oppose the book Gossip Girl because it includes inappropriate clothing, law breaking characters, and the characters living sinful lives. The puritans would ban the book Gossip Girl because
thor Cecily Von Ziegesar is the famous author who wrote the famous book Gossip Girl. Ziegesar was born June 27th 1970 in New York City, New York. She is currently living still living in New York with her husband and two children. She attended college at Colby College and got her BA in english. After one year of attending University of Arizona, Ziegesar dropped out of the MFA program. MFA is the Masters of FIne Art program. Ziegesar was originally a middle grade fiction series editor with Alloy Entertainment
America currently are enrolled in social media. With social media comes the constant comparison to other people. In today’s society, many teenage girls are also negatively influenced by magazines and television that provide a false outlook on what life’s about: money. One of these television shows to blame is “Gossip Girl”. The television show “Gossip Girl” is about a group of Upper East Side residents who attend a high end preparatory school in Manhattan. The show displays what is it like to be of
Cecily von Ziegesar is the author of the teenage novel series Gossip Girl. When the book came out and kids started to read it, parents were extremely upset with its content. They felt that their teens should not be exposed to such topics. Gossip Girl is banned because of inappropriate language, immoral sexual practices, underage drinking, and illegal drug usage. Cecily von Ziegesar, author of Gossip Girl, was inspired to write the book while she was working at a book packaging firm (Baldassarro)