Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games: From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

by Marsha Kinder

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.

280 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1991

About the author

Marsha Kinder (born 1940) is an American film scholar and Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California.

Reviews

[sologdin · Rating 1 out of 5]

was wanting a bit more theoretical rigor out of this one. perhaps suffers from too broad a scope in subject matter.