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FUN!: What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good Life
Alan McKee
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Description for FUN!: What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good Life
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Entertainment Industries. Num Pages: 139 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 220 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
Combining media effects with aesthetic approaches this book offers the first substantial, systematic and coherent account of fun and its importance. But what exactly is fun and what purposes does it serve? Fun is a vital element of entertainment, and entertainment is the most important form of culture in modern Western democracies. It demonstrates that fun is at the heart of entertainment's effects - entertainment both offers its consumers fun and provides them with the intellectual materials to think about the nature of fun. More than this, the book argues that entertainment shows us that ... Read more
Combining media effects with aesthetic approaches this book offers the first substantial, systematic and coherent account of fun and its importance. But what exactly is fun and what purposes does it serve? Fun is a vital element of entertainment, and entertainment is the most important form of culture in modern Western democracies. It demonstrates that fun is at the heart of entertainment's effects - entertainment both offers its consumers fun and provides them with the intellectual materials to think about the nature of fun. More than this, the book argues that entertainment shows us that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Entertainment Industries
Number of Pages
131
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137491787
SKU
V9781137491787
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Ref
99-15
About Alan McKee
Alan McKee is an Associate Dean (Research and Development) at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His most recent books are Pornography: Structures, Agency and Performance (with Rebecca Sullivan, 2015) and Entertainment Industries: Entertainment as a Cultural System (edited with Christy Collis and Ben Hamley, 2012).
Reviews for FUN!: What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good Life
'Amazing weird and daring' Professor John Hartley, John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University, Australia