Fun! [electronic resource] : what entertainment tells us about living a good life / Alan McKee.
McKee, Alan (Aspro Alan), author.
2016
HM621 .M3736 2016eb
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Title Fun! [electronic resource] : what entertainment tells us about living a good life / Alan McKee.
Author McKee, Alan (Aspro Alan), author.
ISBN 9781137491794 (electronic book)
1137491795 (electronic book)
9781137491787
1137491787
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49179-4
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1057/978-1-137-49179-4 doi
Call Number HM621 .M3736 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306
Summary Fun is everywhere. Fun is a vital element of entertainment, and entertainment is the most important form of culture in modern Western democracies. But what exactly is fun, and what purposes does it serve? Combining media effects with aesthetic approaches this book offers the first substantial, systematic and coherent account of fun and its importance. 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. " style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Enjoy!
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 29, 2016)
Series Palgrave entertainment industries.
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Introduction
Entertainment and fun
What is fun?
In defence of fun
Bad fun
A world of fun
Conclusion.

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