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FUN!: What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good Life: Palgrave Entertainment Industries

Autor Alan McKee
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 noi 2015
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 fun – pleasure without purpose – is at the heart of living a good life. Illustrated with detailed examples from entertainment – from the Urban Dictionary to The Simpsons, to the Culture novels of Iain M Banks – this book is intelligent, original, and even (dare we say it) fun.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137491787
ISBN-10: 1137491787
Pagini: 131
Ilustrații: VIII, 131 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Seria Palgrave Entertainment Industries

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Entertainment and Fun.- What is Fun?.- In Defence of Fun.- Bad Fun.- A World of Fun.- Conclusion.  

Recenzii

'Amazing weird and daring' Professor John Hartley, John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University, Australia  

Notă biografică

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).  

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Fun is everywhere.
 Fun is a vital element of entertainment, and entertainment is the most important form of culture in modern Western democracies.
 But what exactly is fun, and what purposes does it serve? Combining media effects with aesthetic approaches this book offers the first substantial, systematic and coherent account of fun and its importance. 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 fun – pleasure without purpose – is at the heart of living a good life. Illustrated with detailed examples from entertainment – from the Urban Dictionary to The Simpsons, to the Culture novels of Iain M Banks – this book is intelligent, original, and even (dare we say it) fun.