The document discusses the representation of teenage girls in the British film Rita, Sue and Bob Too. It analyzes how the film uses stereotypes and countertypes to portray its two main characters, Rita and Sue, as sexually experienced yet ordinary schoolgirls. Some key points made include: 1) Rita and Sue are depicted as stereotypical "silly, immature" schoolgirls through their clothes, hairstyles and behavior, but also serve as countertypes as seemingly promiscuous characters in Thatcher-era Britain, which valued family and morality. 2) The film aims for realism through techniques like handheld camerawork and casting ordinary-looking actresses, but its representation is still a constructed