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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

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