Editors:
- Brings together numerous original essays examining what precisely entertainment is and why it matters
- Moves the state of entertainment studies as a proto-field further forward
- Offers a wealth of opinions, thoughts and approaches to entertainment
Part of the book series: Palgrave Entertainment Industries (PAEI)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Stephen Harrington
About the editor
Stephen Harrington is Associate Professor in Journalism, Media and Communication at the Queensland University of Technology, and has published widely on the transforming relationships between politics, journalism, and popular media.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entertainment Values
Book Subtitle: How do we Assess Entertainment and Why does it Matter?
Editors: Stephen Harrington
Series Title: Palgrave Entertainment Industries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47290-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47289-2Published: 23 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47290-8Published: 14 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-6461
Series E-ISSN: 2947-647X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 304
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Anthropology, Industries, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Cultural Heritage, Sociology of Culture