Only Entertainment
ISBN-13:
9780415254960
ISBN-10:
0415254965
Edition:
2
Author:
Richard Dyer
Publication date:
2002
Publisher:
Routledge
Format:
Hardcover
200 pages
Category:
Communication & Media Studies
,
Social Sciences
,
Popular Culture
,
Sociology
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ISBN-13:
9780415254960
ISBN-10:
0415254965
Edition:
2
Author:
Richard Dyer
Publication date:
2002
Publisher:
Routledge
Format:
Hardcover
200 pages
Category:
Communication & Media Studies
,
Social Sciences
,
Popular Culture
,
Sociology
Summary
Only Entertainment (ISBN-13: 9780415254960 and ISBN-10: 0415254965), written by authors
Richard Dyer, was published by Routledge in 2002.
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Only Entertainment explores entertainment as entertainment, asking how and whether an emphasis on the primacy of pleasure sets it apart from other forms of art.Dyer focuses on the genres most associated with entertainment, from musicals to action movies, disco to porn. He examines the nature of entertainment in movies such as The Sound of Music and Speed, and argues that entertainment is part of a 'common sense' which is always historically and culturally constructed.This new edition of Only Entertainment features a revised introduction and five new chapters on topics from serial killer movies to Elizabeth Taylor. In the final chapter Dyer asks whether entertainment as we know it is on the wane.
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