About this book series

Palgrave Entertainment Industries is the first series to take an empirical multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of entertainment—defined as “audience-centred culture”.  The series understands the work of culture by studying production (including distribution), texts and consumption practices. While maintaining a sophisticated and reflective intellectual stance, Palgrave Entertainment Industries leaves behind anti-empirical “mass-culture” models of commercial culture in order to take an evidence-based approach to entertainment as a cultural system.

Entertainment has been an integral component of everyday lives throughout modernity, remaining remarkably consistent in its textual features for over two hundred years. It is the form of most culture consumed by the majority of citizens of Western countries. The entertainment industries are diverse, encompassing sectors including film, radio and sports, music, television, casinos and live events/festi

vals, and were estimated to be worth more than US$2.2 trillion in 2012, in addition to employing millions of people around the world.

This innovative new series will address the lack of academic attention devoted to entertainment by examining the ways that entertainment as a product, as an industry and as an activity can be understood in our society.

Series advisory board:

Jonathan Gray, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Henry Jenkins III, USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, USA

Shay Sayre, California State University, Fullerton, USA

Liesbet van Zoonen, Loughborough University, UK

Discontinued series: although this series no longer publishes new content, the published titles listed here remain available.
Electronic ISSN
2947-647X
Print ISSN
2947-6461
Series Editor
  • Christy Collis,
  • Stephen Harrington,
  • Alan McKee

Book titles in this series

  1. Entertainment Values

    How do we Assess Entertainment and Why does it Matter?

    Editors:
    • Stephen Harrington
    • Copyright: 2017

    Available Renditions

    • Soft cover
    • eBook
  2. FUN!

    What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good Life

    Authors:
    • Alan McKee
    • Copyright: 2016

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • eBook