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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495960603321

Autore

Kinder Marsha

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1991

ISBN

9780585315690

0585315698

9780520912434

0520912438

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

302.23/4/083

Soggetti

Motion pictures and children

Television and children

Motion pictures and television

Intertextuality

Cognition in children

Video games

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.