Alan McKee 
FUN! [PDF ebook] 
What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good Life

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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.

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Entertainment and Fun.- What is Fun?.- In Defence of Fun.- Bad Fun.- A World of Fun.- Conclusion.  

Sobre el autor

Alan Mc Kee 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).  

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 131 ● ISBN 9781137491794 ● Tamaño de archivo 1.8 MB ● Editorial Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Ciudad London ● País GB ● Publicado 2016 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 4885764 ● Protección de copia DRM social

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