Cinema entertainment : essays on audiences, films and film-makers /

Entertainment is a defining feature of contemporary culture, yet it is often accused of being superficial and even harmful. The authors challenge this negative view and argue for a reconsideration of the value of entertainment and the effect it has on the world in which we live.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lovell, Alan, 1935-
Other Authors: Sergi, Gianluca
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Maidenhead, England ; New York : Open University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • What audiences go for : elite and mass taste
  • Sensual pleasure, audiences, and The dark knight
  • Alfred Hitchcock : the entertainer becomes an artist
  • Stephen Spielberg, Indiana Jones, and the Holocaust
  • The perspective of entertainers? Interviews with Randy Thom and Walter Murch
  • The entertainment discourse.