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

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

by Marsha Kinder (Author)

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    Paperback 1993

    $43.95
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 280
 Edition: Reissue
 Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 17 Dec 1993
ISBN 10: 0520077768
ISBN 13: 9780520077768

Media Reviews
Kinder posits that TV, with its endless narratives and routine interruptions, first fractures the self, and then offers consumption as the Band-Aid. . . . In suggesting that a child might now regard herself, like her heroes, as a 'gendered commodity around which a whole commercial nexus is organized, ' Kinder hints at the hazards of this new mutability. --Julie Phillips, The Village Voice
Author Bio
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).