Buying into sexy
By: produced and distributed by The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Contributors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm); Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Children and sex; Sex in advertising; Advertising and children; Preteens; Attitudes; Girls
Other titles: Sexing up of tweens; Marketplace (Television program)
Description: A report on how marketers, especially in the clothing industry, are selling a grown-up, sexy image to pre-teen girls. This program follows the daily lives of tween girls, recording their perceptions of fashion, celebrities, boys and themselves. Interviews with both concerned and clueless parents are included, as well as a glimpse into corporate decision making that impacts tween culture.
Notes: Also available as streaming video.

This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Originally broadcast on the television program Marketplace, January 2005.

Reporter, Wendy Mesley.

DVD-R.

Closed-captioned.