Entertainment Values: How do we Assess Entertainment and Why does it Matter?Stephen Harrington Springer, 14 ago 2017 - 304 páginas This collection brings together the work of a range of scholars from around the world with different perspectives on one simple question: How can we assess the value of various entertainment products and forms? Entertainment is everywhere. The industries that produce it earn billions of dollars each year and employ hundreds of thousands of people. Its pervasiveness means almost everyone has something to say about entertainment, too, whether it be our opinion on the latest Hollywood blockbuster, a new celebrity couple, or our concerns over its place in the world of politics. And yet, in spite of its significance, entertainment has too-often been dismissed with surprising ease within the academy as a ‘mindless’, ‘lowbrow’ – even ‘dangerous’ – form of culture, and therefore unworthy of serious appraisal (let alone praise). Entertainment Values, challenges this assumption, offering a better understanding of what entertainment is, why we should take it seriously, as well as helping us to appreciate the significant and complex impact it has on our culture. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 47
Página 3
... popular culture'? The first reason for this approach is that 'entertainment' and 'media' are not interchangeable terms. There is a lot of media that is not produced by the entertainment industries, or is produced without aiming to ...
... popular culture'? The first reason for this approach is that 'entertainment' and 'media' are not interchangeable terms. There is a lot of media that is not produced by the entertainment industries, or is produced without aiming to ...
Página 4
... mass entertainment 'in their day') are given endless scrutiny, but they are ... cultural influence – between a video game and a Hollywood blockbuster, than ... culture is different. The two, so my detractors claim, are effectively one ...
... mass entertainment 'in their day') are given endless scrutiny, but they are ... cultural influence – between a video game and a Hollywood blockbuster, than ... culture is different. The two, so my detractors claim, are effectively one ...
Página 7
... social media case study of Miley Cyrus, Toija Cinque and Sean Redmond examine the value of celebrity gossip for young teenage women in Chapter 6. Celebrity gossip is often panned as the trashiest of all entertainment culture and yet it ...
... social media case study of Miley Cyrus, Toija Cinque and Sean Redmond examine the value of celebrity gossip for young teenage women in Chapter 6. Celebrity gossip is often panned as the trashiest of all entertainment culture and yet it ...
Página 8
... popular communication per se, but in the audience response to the show. The ... social action. In Chapter 13, Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner look at memes ... culture. He examines how cinematic entertainment has grappled with current ...
... popular communication per se, but in the audience response to the show. The ... social action. In Chapter 13, Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner look at memes ... culture. He examines how cinematic entertainment has grappled with current ...
Página 10
... Culture and Society, Vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 759–770. Moreno, J. (2016) 'This Teen Pulled Off the Ultimate Joke at an ... popular media, is the author of Australian TV News: New Forms, Functions, and Futures (Intellect, 2013) and current Chair of ...
... Culture and Society, Vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 759–770. Moreno, J. (2016) 'This Teen Pulled Off the Ultimate Joke at an ... popular media, is the author of Australian TV News: New Forms, Functions, and Futures (Intellect, 2013) and current Chair of ...
Índice
1 | |
11 | |
23 | |
What Roller Coasters Teach Us About Being Human | 41 |
Entertainment for the Mind Body and Spirit | 59 |
The Value of Celebrity Gossip | 70 |
Educating and Empowering Through Entertainment | 91 |
The Educational Value of Entertainment | 109 |
Entertainment and the Demediatization of Politics | 165 |
Entertainment and Alternative Memory in China | 179 |
Barthes Punctum Feminist Standpoint Theory and the Political Significance of YesAllWomen | 195 |
Valuing Films as Entertainment | 212 |
Representations of Public Relations in Entertainment | 229 |
The Pornographication of Cinematic Entertainment | 250 |
To Understand the Futures of Filmgoing We Must Know Its Histories | 269 |
Index | 278 |
Indigenous Australia Popular Music and Reconciliation | 130 |
The Sociocultural Value of SemiFictional Entertainment and Popular Communication | 149 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Entertainment Values: How Do We Assess Entertainment and Why Does it Matter? Stephen Harrington No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Entertainment Values: How do we Assess Entertainment and Why does it Matter? Stephen Harrington No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Entertainment Values: How Do We Assess Entertainment and Why Does it Matter? Stephen Harrington No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
Aboriginal action figure argue audiences Australia avatar Barthes become blog Buzz Calombaris celebrity gossip chapter characters China Christine Anu cinema commercial Communication consumers contestants cooking discourse emotional engagement episode everyday example experience Facebook film G.I. Joe gender genre grass-mud horse Harrington hashtag health edu-tainment Hitchcock identity Indigenous music journalism journalists lives mainstream MasterChef Mattel McKee memes memetic memory ment Miley Cyrus Miley’s narrative networks Newsroom one’s Palgrave Entertainment Industries paratexts participants people’s performance perspective play political popular culture porn porno chic pornography programming promotion Public Relations punctum Queensland Queensland University rabbit reality representations retweets ride role roller coaster Routledge Samantha Jones SATC sexual social society Star Wars television tion Tomasa Toy Story toyesis toyetic tweets Twitter University of Technology video games viewers Warumpi Band YesAllWomen York Yothu Yindi YouTube