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Only Entertainment by Richard Dyer (2002, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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- ISBN
- 9780415254977
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0415254973
ISBN-13
9780415254977
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2281667
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Only Entertainment
Subject
Film / General, Media Studies, Popular Culture, General
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Performing Arts, Social Science
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2001-058920
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.484
Table Of Content
1. Introduction 2. The Idea of Entertainment 3. A Bit of Uplift: Classical Ballet 4. Quality Pleasures 5. Entertainment and Utopia 6. The Colour of Entertainment 7. The Sound of Music 8. Sweet Charity 9. Action! 11. Lethal Repetition 12. First a Star: Elizabeth Taylor 13. The Son of the Sheik 14. Don't Look Now: the Instabilities of the Male Pin-Up 15. Coming to Terms: Gay Pornography 16. In Defence of Disco 17. Getting Over the Rainbow: Identity and Pleasure in Gay Cultural Politics 18. The Waning of Entertainment
Edition Description
Revised edition,New Edition
Synopsis
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., 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., This new edition of Dyer's text on entertainment and the pleasures of popular culture features a revised introduction and five new chapters on topics from serial killer movies to Elizabeth Taylor.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.
LC Classification Number
PN1590.S6D94 2002
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