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, June 03, 2008

Using "Paparazzi" style photographs to sell identification...and merchandise



I was just looking at the Elizabeth and James website and found it interesting that MKA is using a paparazzi style of photos to sell their collection. Argue if you like, but most of these images could be Us or OK material. Not all...but most.

There's an interesting push and pull happening...stars seeming to want to be left alone by the paparazzi and yet using the photographic style to imply that wearing this clothing line will get you paparazzi attention and, one could read, fame.

I suppose its business as usual, stars keep finding ways to push their goods with the "buy this and be like us" concept.

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