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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 ent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dyer, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2002.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Performing arts > Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Arts du spectacle > Aspect social.
Culture populaire.
popular culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Performing arts > Social aspects
Popular culture
Filmkunst.
Amusement.
Beeldvorming.
Music.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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!
  • 10. Lethal repetition
  • 11. Four films of Lana Turner
  • 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.

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