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

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Marsha Kinder

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

Media studies; Consumerism

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.

By: Marsha Kinder
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
Publication Date: 23 November 1993
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