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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.

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""Kinder posits that TV, with its endless narratives and routine interruptions, first fractures the self, and then offers consumption as the Band-Aid. . . . In suggesting that a child might now regard herself, like her heroes, as a 'gendered commodity around which a whole commercial nexus is organized, ' Kinder hints at the hazards of this new mutability.""--Julie Phillips, ""The Village Voice

Kinder posits that TV, with its endless narratives and routine interruptions, first fractures the self, and then offers consumption as the Band-Aid. . . . In suggesting that a child might now regard herself, like her heroes, as a 'gendered commodity around which a whole commercial nexus is organized, ' Kinder hints at the hazards of this new mutability. --Julie Phillips, The Village Voice

"""Kinder posits that TV, with its endless narratives and routine interruptions, first fractures the self, and then offers consumption as the Band-Aid. . . . In suggesting that a child might now regard herself, like her heroes, as a 'gendered commodity around which a whole commercial nexus is organized, ' Kinder hints at the hazards of this new mutability.""--Julie Phillips, ""The Village Voice"

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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).

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