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Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games

From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Marsha Kinder

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University of California Press
23 November 1993
"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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Imprint:   University of California Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   363g
ISBN:   9780520077768
ISBN 10:   0520077768
Pages:   277
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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).

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

"""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"


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