Dyer, Richard,  1945- <br/><br/>
Only entertainment / 
Richard Dyer. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - x, 187 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction --  The idea of entertainment --  A bit of uplift: classical ballet --  Quality pleasures --  Entertainment and utopia --  The colour of entertainment --  The Sound of Music --  Sweet Charity --  Action! --  Lethal repetition --  Four films of Lana Turner --  First a star: Elizabeth Taylor --  The Son of the Sheik --  Don't look now: the instabilities of the male pin-up --  Coming to terms: gay pornography --  In defence of disco --  Getting over the rainbow: identity and pleasure in gay cultural politics --  The waning of entertainment.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16.  17.  18. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415254973 (PB) 0415254965 (HB) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001058920 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Performing arts--Social aspects<br/>Popular culture.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1590.S6  / D94 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4848