Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games: From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Paperback-Fast Shipping

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Marsha Kinder (Author)

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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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

Author Biography

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).

Number of Pages: 277Dimensions: 0.71 x 8.78 x 5.85 INPublication Date: November 23, 1993