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.
Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
About the Book
Reviews
"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 JournalTable of Contents
Preface
I. Foreplay and Other Preliminaries
2. Saturday Morning Television:
Endless Consumption and Transmedia
Intertextuality in Muppets, Raisins, and the
Lasagna Zone 39
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
List of Works Cited
Index