ENGLISH

FUN!: What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good Life

By Alan McKee (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-137-49178-7, 978-1-137-49179-4
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-49179-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1753575 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Entertainment Industries
Edition
1
Pages
VIII, 131\135
Time added
2016-07-20 04:00:00
Cultural Theory

Description

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.

Similar books