Entertainment Values How do we Assess Entertainment and Why does it Matter? /

Entertainment Values How do we Assess Entertainment and Why does it Matter? /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Harrington, Stephen (Editor)
Summary:XVII, 304 p. 11 illus.
text
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Palgrave Entertainment Industries,
Subjects:
Ethnology.
Industries.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Cultural property.
Culture.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
Cultural Studies.
Cultural Theory.
Cultural Heritage.
Sociology of Culture.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47290-8
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. How can we value entertainment? And, why does it matter? Stephen Harrington
  • 2. What is Entertainment? The value of industry definitions: Christy Collis.-3. From toyetic to toyesis: the cultural value of merchandising: Jason Bainbridge
  • 4. Screaming on a Ride To Nowhere: What Roller Coasters Teach Us about Being Human: Dana Anderson and Malcolm Burt.-5. Entertainment for the Mind, Body and Spirit: Tyrha M. Lindsey-Warren.-6. Talking Miley: The Value of Celebrity Gossip: Toija Cinque and Sean Redmond
  • 7. MasterChef Australia: educating and empowering through entertainment: Katherine Kirkwood
  • 8. Public and private adolescent lives: the educational value of entertainment: Pilar Lacasa, Laura Méndez and Sara Cortés
  • 9 From Moomba to The Dreaming: Indigenous Australia, Popular Music and Cultural Reconciliation: Andrew King
  • 10. Entering The Newsroom: The Sociocultural Value of ‘Semi-Fictional’ Entertainment and Popular Communication Chris Peters
  • 11 What if ‘journalism’ is the problem?: Entertainment and the ‘de-mediatization’ of politics: Stephen Harrington
  • 12 Spoof videos: Entertainment and Alternative Memory in China: Henry Siling Li
  • 13. Decoding Memes: Barthes’ Punctum, Feminist Standpoint Theory, and the Political Significance of #YesAllWomen: Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner
  • 14. Why I wasn’t interested in Hitchcock until I turned 40: Valuing films as entertainment: Alan McKee
  • 15. Fluff, frivolity and the fabulous Samantha Jones: Representations of public relations in entertainment: Ella Chorazy and Stephen Harrington
  • 16. From Deep Throat to Don Jon: the pornographication of cinematic entertainment: Brian McNair
  • 17 To Understand the Futures of Filmgoing, We Must Know Its Histories: Henry Jenkins
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