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.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Refusal, Planning and Grantiness

So, in protest of Viacom I am refusing to remove any of my "no longer available" clips. Sorry for the inconvenience. Its just a reminder to me each and everyday that there are some people out there that actually think I would be willing to pay for rights to post a clip of Regis dressed up as Ashley Olsen. Hmm...think again.

On a totally different note...

Donna and I had a killer planning day where we focused on developing our budget and schedule for the Boston shoot (all four interviewees confirmed: Jean Kilbourne, Diane Levin, Gail Dines and Susan Linn), came up with three new leads for the New York shoot (currently confirmed with Mary Flanagan), and decided that we should pursue an interview with Douglas Coupland (writer of Generation X) to work the angle of the new Gen X parenting. We also started work on our Creative Capital grant inquiry and made plans for seeking out some earlier funds for the Boston trip. All in all a very busy, but very exciting morning.

Now Im about to write up my notes from the meeting to remind myself of all the to-dos we came up with. Basically this month will be a rush to the end.

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