ISBN:
9781137472908
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (309 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Entertainment Industries
Parallel Title:
Print version Harrington, Stephen Entertainment Values : How do we Assess Entertainment and Why does it Matter?
DDC:
306.48
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Entertainment Values -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- How Can We Value Entertainment? And, Why Does It Matter? -- Valuing Entertainment -- Why Entertainment? -- This Book -- Notes -- References -- What Is Entertainment? The Value of Industry Definitions -- Academic and Policy Definitions -- Industry Definitions -- Entertainment as Audience-Centred Culture -- Entertainment as Commercial Culture -- Conclusion -- References -- From Toyetic to Toyesis: The Cultural Value of Merchandising -- Toyetics and Paratextuality -- A History of Toys -- Toyetics to Toyesis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Screaming on a Ride to Nowhere: What Roller Coasters Teach Us About Being Human -- Can't Buy a Thrill - or Can You? -- Paying for Fear in the Era of Terror -- It's Coaster Time! -- Conclusion: Why we Ride -- Notes -- References -- Entertainment for the Mind, Body and Spirit -- The Roots of 'Edu-Tainment' -- Narratives and Storytelling -- A Typology of Health Edu-Tainment -- Conclusion -- References -- Talking Miley: The Value of Celebrity Gossip -- Research Methodology -- Unruly Desire, Cathartic Affect and the Value of Tweeting -- The Face that Can't be Tamed -- Family and Nostalgia -- Mothering and Nurturing -- Promotion and Publicity -- Self-Depreciation and Self-Reflexivity -- Misrule -- Conclusion -- References -- MasterChef Australia: Educating and Empowering Through Entertainment -- The Personalities: Judges, Celebrity Guests, and the Contestants -- Redefining Cooking Demonstration -- The Travelling Advertisement -- From the Raw to the Cooked -- Conclusion -- References -- Public and Private Adolescent Lives: The Educational Value of Entertainment -- The Concept of Entertainment -- Avatars, Cyber Drama, Simulation and Virtual Reality -- Identity: Public and Private Lives -- Methodology
Abstract:
The Workshop and the Required Data -- Results: Analysis and Discussion -- Simulating and Sharing the World Through an Avatar -- Imaginary Worlds: Performing and Sharing Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- From Moomba to the Dreaming: Indigenous Australia, Popular Music and Reconciliation -- The Moomba and Beyond - Aboriginal Musical Promotion in the 1950s and 1960s -- Beyond the Bush - 'Settlement Bands' of the 1980s -- Tribal Voice to Mainstream Icons - 1990s World Music -- Black and Deadly: Indigenous Vibes in the 2000s -- Conclusion: Integrated Indigenous Promotion -- Note -- References -- Entering The Newsroom: The Sociocultural Value of 'Semi-Fictional' Entertainment and Popular Communication -- Popular Entertainment as Catalyst for Political Critique -- The Role of Journalism in Contemporary Society -- Cable News and The Newsroom as Semi-Fictional Entertainment -- Study Recap - The Newsroom and Public Reflections on Journalism -- Conclusion: Entertainment and Journalism Rethought -- Notes -- References -- What If 'Journalism' Is the Problem?: Entertainment and the 'De-mediatization' of Politics -- The 'Death' of Journalism -- The Mediatization of Politics -- 'De-mediatization'? -- Conclusion -- References -- Spoof Videos: Entertainment and Alternative Memory in China -- Airbrushed Out of History -- Memory and Power -- China's Memory Policy -- Little Rabbit, Be Good and the Counter-Narrative -- Grass-Mud Horse and the Subversion of Ideographs -- The Political Value of Spoof Videos -- Notes -- References -- Decoding Memes: Barthes' Punctum, Feminist Standpoint Theory, and the Political Significance of #YesAllWomen -- #YesAllWomen and the Expansive Meme -- Barthes' Punctum and Memetic Resonance -- Memetic Standpoint Theory -- From #YesAllWomen to Popular Media Texts: Weaving the Threads of the Political Punctum -- References
Abstract:
Why I Wasn't Interested in Hitchcock Until I Turned 40: Valuing Films as Entertainment -- Valuing Hitchcock as Entertainment -- The Aesthetic System of Entertainment -- Does It Have a Good Story? -- Do I have an Emotional Reaction to It? -- Do I Find the Ending to be Satisfying? -- Is It Fun? -- Conclusion: Rescuing Hitchcock the Entertainer -- References -- Fluff, Frivolity, and the Fabulous Samantha Jones: Representations of Public Relations in Entertainment -- The Cultural Contribution of Sex and The City -- Industry and Professional Relationships -- Work and Publicity -- Ease and Lifestyle -- Attitude, Acumen, and Character Complexity -- Gender, Emotionality, and Sex -- Stereotypes, Accuracy, and the Value of Entertainment -- References -- From Deep Throat to Don Jon: The Pornographication of Cinematic Entertainment -- From 'Men Only' to Mass Entertainment: The Mainstreaming of Pornography -- The Pornographication of Entertainment -- Porno Chic as Entertainment -- Conclusion -- Note -- Filmography -- References -- To Understand the Futures of Film-going, We Must Know Its Histories -- History 1: The History of Exhibition -- History 2: The History of Fandom -- History 3: A History of Transmedia -- Index
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