It's A Girl Thing: Tween Queens and the Commodification of the Girl's Tween Market

A few years of research, thoughts and adjustments that all led to a completed film which, framed by the structure of a faux interactive website for tween girls, looks closely, and critically, at the tween market's evolution and the role of Disney and Nickelodeon's tween queens (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Miley Cryus, Miranda Cosgrove, Kiki Palmer, Selena Gomez, and more) in the market's explosion.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Killing Us Softly 3

Just watched Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women by Jean Kilbourne (click on title of post for link).

I remember either reading something by Kilbourne or finding quotes by her when I was doing my initial research, however I had not seen any of the videos from this series. Honestly would love to see this series taught in every high school and college program. Its both fascinating and frightening to really do this sort of analysis on the images we see each day. As I've mentioned to many friends, the Jessica Simpson ads are some of my favorites. Exactly what is being sold here?

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