Nonverbal Communication In The Film 'Jingle Bells Christmas Show'

Nonverbal Communication
In the iconic Jingle Bells Christmas show, The Plastics are known for performing a sexualized dance each year. Before this year’s dance, Regina turns to Gretchen and makes her move to a different spot which seems like a ploy to show Gretchen that Cady is her new favorite. In this scene, proxemics is used as a way to illustrate your position in the social hierarchy. In this case, the space between Gretchen and Regina was implicitly telling her that Regina was displacing her. In LDCAT, proxemics is used similarly as a way of creating a disparity between social groups based on social standing. In this particular movie, hallways and basketball gyms were segregated into spaces that were prohibited for the unpopular kids. At the beginning of the film, Alvin and his friends stared at the cool kid hallway and admired them from behind a wall making sure not to be visible. Then again, when they attended a basketball game, one of the star basketball players climbed the bleachers and told them that they did not belong there as if …show more content…
We are aware that there is not one way to view life, so, from these films, we learn that sometimes our social locations can aid in shaping our perspectives on our own lives, as well as, the lives of others (Wood). In these cases, we are presented with before and after views on popularity from people that experience it, desire it, or observe it. From them, we are given the opportunity to see popularity from different lights. Though, these perspectives seem to be uniform and do not accurately represent all the views that there are because in these story lines we normally get the point of view of the cool kids and the kids that want to be them, but what about all the other