Only entertainment / Richard Dyer.
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TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2002Edition: 2nd edDescription: x, 187 p. : illISBN: - 0415254973 (PB)
- 0415254965 (HB)
- 306.4848 23
- PN1590.S6 D94 2002
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.4848 DYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A286818B |
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| 306.4846 WIL Anthropology and human movement : searching for origins / | 306.48460945 NEV The eloquent body : dance and humanist culture in fifteenth-century Italy / | 306.4846099623 ALE Dancing from the heart : movement, gender, and Cook Islands globalization / | 306.4848 DYE Only entertainment / | 306.4848 KNO Theatre & interculturalism / | 306.4848 SAY Entertainment & society : audiences, trends, and impacts / | 306.4848 SAY Entertainment and society : influences, impacts, and innovations / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. The idea of entertainment -- 3. A bit of uplift: classical ballet -- 4. Quality pleasures -- 5. Entertainment and utopia -- 6. The colour of entertainment -- 7. The Sound of Music -- 8. Sweet Charity -- 9. Action! -- 10. Lethal repetition -- 11. Four films of Lana Turner -- 12. First a star: Elizabeth Taylor -- 13. The Son of the Sheik -- 14. Don't look now: the instabilities of the male pin-up -- 15. Coming to terms: gay pornography -- 16. In defence of disco -- 17. Getting over the rainbow: identity and pleasure in gay cultural politics -- 18. The waning of entertainment.
"This new edition of Only Entertainment features a revised introduction and five new chapters on topics from serial killer movies to Elizabeth Taylor. In the final chapter Dyer asks whether entertainment as we know it is on the wane."--BOOK JACKET.
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