Richard Dyer

Only Entertainment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415254960
• ISBN-10: 0415254965
• Artikelnr.: 21779184

Autorenporträt

Richard Dyer is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

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