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.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

New Tween Info Coming

Just ordered two box sets of MKA movies and the So Little Time series.

Also, on the way are:

The Great Tween Buying Machine: Capturing Your Share of the Multi-Billion-Dollar Tween Market (Paperback)
by David Siegel, Timothy Coffey, Gregory Livingston

Seven Going On Seventeen: Tween Studies In The Culture Of Girlhood (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y) (Paperback)
by Claudia Mitchell (Editor), Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (Editor)

Girls Make Media (Paperback)
by Mary Celeste Kearney

Been working my way through interviews on the olsentwins.net and am pretty sure the short found footage piece is going to focus on the Rolling Stone shoot. Its creepy at best and will definately break down with repetition.

Then, its weeks of reading and watching for research. Wish us luck. I'll keep you posted on any interesting insights as things move forward.

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