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. |
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... Reality 112 Identity: Public and Private Lives 112 Methodology 114 The Workshop and the Required Data 116 Results: Analysis and Discussion 116 Simulating and Sharing the World Through an Avatar 117 Imaginary Worlds: Performing and ...
... Reality 112 Identity: Public and Private Lives 112 Methodology 114 The Workshop and the Required Data 116 Results: Analysis and Discussion 116 Simulating and Sharing the World Through an Avatar 117 Imaginary Worlds: Performing and ...
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... reality TV show and a pop music album, than between a pop album and a classical music album; between David Blaine and John Grisham, than between John Grisham and J.M. Coetzee. It makes clear that entertainment – with its hyper ...
... reality TV show and a pop music album, than between a pop album and a classical music album; between David Blaine and John Grisham, than between John Grisham and J.M. Coetzee. It makes clear that entertainment – with its hyper ...
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... reality is that entertainment is a distinctive form of culture, and needs to be understood as such. THIS. BOOK. Though we might think about entertainment in simple terms, its role is complex, and it is a role we ought to better understand ...
... reality is that entertainment is a distinctive form of culture, and needs to be understood as such. THIS. BOOK. Though we might think about entertainment in simple terms, its role is complex, and it is a role we ought to better understand ...
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... realities of their own late capitalistic existence' (Burningham 2000: 159) with Mister Potato Head introducing himself as being 'from Playskool' and the green dinosaur Rex (Wallace Shawn) as being 'from Mattel. Well, I'm not really from ...
... realities of their own late capitalistic existence' (Burningham 2000: 159) with Mister Potato Head introducing himself as being 'from Playskool' and the green dinosaur Rex (Wallace Shawn) as being 'from Mattel. Well, I'm not really from ...
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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 |
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