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Kinder Marsha |
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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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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1991] |
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©1991 |
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9780585315690 |
0585315698 |
9780520912434 |
0520912438 |
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[Reprint 2019] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 266 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Disciplina |
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Motion pictures and children |
Television and children |
Motion pictures and television |
Intertextuality |
Cognition in children |
Video games |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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