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9780415254977

Only Entertainment

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415254977

  • ISBN10:

    0415254973

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2002-06-14
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Only Entertainmentis a classic collection of essays on entertainment and the pleasures of popular culture. Richard Dyer argues that any analysis of entertainment begins with recognizing that entertainment is part of a "common sense" which is always historically and culturally constructed. Dyer examines this social construction of entertainment without rejecting aesthetic or ideological criticism, and his subjects range fromThe Sound of Musicto action cinema, classical ballet to disco, star pin-ups to pornography. The second edition features a new introduction placing the essays in the context of cultural debates.

Author Biography

Richard Dyer is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
ix
Introduction
1(4)
The idea of entertainment
5(5)
A bit of uplift: classical ballet
10(4)
Quality pleasures
14(5)
Entertainment and utopia
19(17)
The colour of entertainment
36(10)
The Sound of Music
46(14)
Sweet Charity
60(4)
Action!
64(6)
Lethal repetition
70(9)
Four films of Lana Turner
79(33)
First a star: Elizabeth Taylor
112(6)
The Son of the Sheik
118(4)
Don't look now: the instabilities of the male pin-up
122(16)
Coming to terms: gay pornography
138(13)
In defence of disco
151(10)
Getting over the rainbow: identity and pleasure in gay cultural politics
161(14)
The waning of entertainment
175(6)
Index 181

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