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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 mult...
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  • 01 September 2023
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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 modern media.


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 asse
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Price: $31.95
Pages: 277
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 01 September 2023
ISBN: 9780520912434
Format: eBook
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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