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Dyer, Richard

 
9780415057172: Only Entertainment
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ISBN 10: 0415057175 ISBN 13: 9780415057172
Editorial: Routledge, 1992

Sinopsis

Everyone knows what entertainment is, but how can we begin to define it or even to talk about what we know? In Only Entertainment, Richard Dyer argues that we have to start any analysis of entertainment by understanding it as entertainment, as part of a `common sense' or cultural awareness which is always historically and culturally constructed. In a series of lucid and provocative essays, Dyer investigates the social construction as well as the aesthetics and ideology of entertainment.
Dyer's subjects range from classical ballet to disco, from star pin-ups to pornography, and from classic serials to camp. his introduction places the writings in context of current cultural debates, and the concluding essay links ideas of pleasure to the politics of sexuality.

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Everyone knows what entertainment is, but how can we begin to define it or even to talk about what we know? In Only Entertainment, Richard Dyer argues that we have to start any analysis of entertainment by understanding it as entertainment, as part of a `common sense' or cultural awareness which is always historically and culturally constructed. In a series of lucid and provocative essays, Dyer investigates the social construction as well as the aesthetics and ideology of entertainment.
Dyer's subjects range from classical ballet to disco, from star pin-ups to pornography, and from classic serials to camp. his introduction places the writings in context of current cultural debates, and the concluding essay links ideas of pleasure to the politics of sexuality.

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Everyone knows what entertainment is, but how can we begin to talk about what we know? In Only Entertainment , Richard Dyer argues that we have to start any analysis of entertainment by understanding it as entertainment , as part of a common sense' or cultural awareness which is always historically and culturally constructed. In a series of lucid and provocative essays, Dyer investigates, without rejecting aesthetics or ideological criticism, the social construction of entertainment. All of the essays relate to - and perhaps laid the foundations for - current debates in gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, and the turn towards cultural studies. Dyer's subjects range from classical ballet to disco, from star pin-ups to pornography, and from classic serials to camp. His introduction places the writings in the context of current cultural debates, and the concluding essay links ideas of pleasure to the politics of sexuality.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
1992
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415057175
ISBN 13 
9780415057172
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
192
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