Playing with Power in Movies, Television & Video Games – From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Hardcover

Kinder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520075706 ISBN 13: 9780520075702

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

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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Review:

"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

From the Back Cover:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520075706
• ISBN 13: 9780520075702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 277