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.
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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.