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• ISBN 10: 1137472901
• ISBN 13: 9781137472908
• Author: Stephen Harrington

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.

Table of contents:

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

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 Com

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 #Y

#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

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 Entertainm

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

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