| Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games |
| Preface |
| 4 |  | 1— Foreplay and Other Preliminaries |
| 1 | • | Intertextuality, Dialogism, and Sliding Signifiers |
| • | Consumerist Interactivity |
| • | Cognitive Theory and the Gendered Spectator/Player |
| • | Toward a Synthesis of Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Theory |
| • | Reenvoicement and the Sleep-bargaining Genre |
| • | "Fort/Da" Games and the Freudian Master Plot |
| • | The Reenvoicement of Mass Media in Sleep-bargaining Rituals |
| • | A Preliminary Case Study: Where Did Big Bird Go? |
| • | Emerging Questions |
| 2 | • | Things to Come |
| 8 | | 2— Saturday Morning Television: Endless Consumption and Transmedia Intertextuality in Muppets, Raisins, and the Lasagna Zone |
| 2 | • | Transmedia Intertextuality and the Child |
| 1 | • | Saturday CBS Fun |
| • | Appropriating Mother's Milk |
| 1 | • | Eating Fellini |
| 1 | • | An Intertextual Reading of Three Empirical Studies |
| 1 | • | "The Green Ranger": The Anxiety of Obsolescence |
| 1 | • | "The Lasagna Zone": The Anxiety of Endless Consumption |
| • | Watching and Playing |
| 2 | | 3— The Nintendo Entertainment System: Game Boys, Super Brothers, and Wizards |
| • | Nintendo Enters the Market |
| • | We're off to See The Wizard |
| • | The Oedipalization of Home Video Games |
| • | The Super Mario Brothers on Television |
| • | Short Circuits and Premature Deaths |
| 2 | • | A Cognitive Perspective on Video Games and Their Commodification |
| 1 | | 4— Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Supersystem and the Video Game Movie Genre |
| • | Growing into a Supersystem |
| 1 | • | Turtle Growth on TV |
| • | TMNT and the Video Game Movie Genre |
| • | Female Masquerade in "April Foolish" |
| • | Masculine Masquerade in the Movie |
| 1 | | 5— Postplay in Global Networks: An Afterword |
| • | Ninjas and Networks |
| • | Decentering the Oscar |
| • | The Decline of Japanese Software |
| • | The Compositing Power of HDTV |
| • | The Theatrical Realm of Global Politics |
| 1 | • | The New World Order |
| 1 | | Appendixes |
| Appendix 1 |
| • | Procedure |
| • | Plot Summary of "April Foolish" |
| Questions and Answers |
| • | Discussion |
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| • | General Discussion |
| 1 | | Appendix 2 |
| • | Procedure |
| • | The TMNT Arcade Game |
| 1 | | Questions and Answers |
| • | Discussion |
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| 2 | | Notes |
| 1 | • | 1— Foreplay and Other Preliminaries |
| 1 | • | 2— Saturday Morning Television: Endless Consumption and Transmedia Intertextuality in Muppets, Raisins, and the Lasagna Zone |
| • | 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 |
| Works Cited |
| 2 | | Index |
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