Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games: From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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University of California Press, 2023 M09 1 - 277 páginas
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.


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 asse
 

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Foreplay and Other Preliminaries
1
Saturday Morning Television Endless Consumption and Transmedia Intertextuality in Muppets Raisins and the Lasagna Zone
39
The Nintendo Entertainment System Game Boys Super Brothers and Wizards
87
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Supersystem and the Video Game Movie Genre
121
Postplay in Global Networks An Afterword
154
Appendixes
173
Notes
213
Works Cited
233
Index
247
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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).

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