Marsha Kinder

Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games (eBook, ePUB)

From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mayo Clinic Press
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520912434
• Artikelnr.: 68600110

Autorenporträt

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).