Fun!: What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good Life - Couverture rigide

McKee, Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1137491787 ISBN 13 : 9781137491787

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot, 2015

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Pivot
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1137491787
• ISBN 13: 9781137491787
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 139
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