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Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games

From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
by Marsha Kinder (Author)
Paperback eBook
Price: $31.95 / £27.00
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 277
ISBN: 9780520912434
Trim Size: 6.14 x 9.21
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About the Book

How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to multinational media mergers and the "new world order"? In assessing these questions, Marsha Kinder provides a brilliant new perspective on modern media.

About the Author

Marsha Kinder is Professor of Critical Studies in the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. She is the author of Blood Cinema (California 1993).

Table of Contents

Preface 

I. Foreplay and Other Preliminaries 
2. Saturday Morning Television: 
   Endless Consumption and Transmedia
   Intertextuality in Muppets, Raisins, and the
   Lasagna Zone 39
3. The Nintendo Entertainment System:
   Game Boys, Super Brothers, and Wizards 
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
   The Supersystem and the Video Game
   Movie Genre 
5. Postplay in Global Networks: An Afterword 

Appendixes 
Notes 
List of Works Cited 
Index 

Reviews

"A very productive, thought-provoking analysis of new transformations in today's narrative media and their interpretations of the child-spectator."—Dana Polan, Editor,Cinema Journal