Playing with power in movies, television, and video games : from Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Marsha Kinder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinder, Marsha, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in children.

Intertextuality.

Motion pictures and children.

Motion pictures and television.

Television and children.

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 266 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1991]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

1. Foreplay and Other Preliminaries

2. Saturday Morning Television: Endless Consumption and Transmedia Intertextuality in Muppets, Raisins, and the Lasagna Zone

3. The Nintendo Entertainment System: Game Boys, Super Brothers, and Wizards

4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Supersystem and the Video Game Movie Genre

5. Postplay in Global Networks: An Afterword

Appendixes

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585315690

0585315698

9780520912434

0520912438

OCLC:

1163878322