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Entertainment Values
How do we Assess Entertainment and Why does it Matter?
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About this book
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' â even 'dangerous' â 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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Table of contents
- Entertainment Values
- How Can We Value Entertainment? And, Why Does It Matter?
- What Is Entertainment? The Value of Industry Definitions
- From Toyetic to Toyesis: The Cultural Value of Merchandising
- Screaming on a Ride to Nowhere: What Roller Coasters Teach Us About Being Human
- Entertainment for the Mind, Body and Spirit
- Talking Miley: The Value of Celebrity Gossip
- MasterChef Australia: Educating and Empowering Through Entertainment
- Public and Private Adolescent Lives: The Educational Value of Entertainment
- From Moomba to the Dreaming: Indigenous Australia, Popular Music and Reconciliation
- Entering The Newsroom: The Sociocultural Value of âSemi-Fictionalâ Entertainment and Popular Communication
- What If âJournalismâ Is the Problem?: Entertainment and the âDe-mediatizationâ of Politics
- Spoof Videos: Entertainment and Alternative Memory in China
- Decoding Memes: Barthesâ Punctum, Feminist Standpoint Theory, and the Political Significance of #YesAllWomen
- Why I Wasnât Interested in Hitchcock Until I Turned 40: Valuing Films as Entertainment
- Fluff, Frivolity, and the Fabulous Samantha Jones: Representations of Public Relations in Entertainment
- From Deep Throat to Don Jon: The Pornographication of Cinematic Entertainment
- To Understand the Futures of Film-going, We Must Know Its Histories
- Index