Entertainment Industries: Entertainment as a Cultural System

Entertainment Industries: Entertainment as a Cultural System
ISBN-10
1317979192
ISBN-13
9781317979197
Category
Social Science
Pages
168
Language
English
Published
2014-06-11
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Alan McKee, Christy Collis, Ben Hamley

Description

Entertainment Industries is the first book to map entertainment as a cultural system. Including work from world-renowned analysts such as Henry Jenkins and Jonathan Gray, this innovative collection explains what entertainment is and how it works. Entertainment is audience-centred culture. The Entertainment Industries are a uniquely interdisciplinary collection of evolving businesses that openly monitor evolving cultural trends and work within them. The producers of entertainment – central to that practice– are the new artists. They understand audiences and combine creative, business and legal skills in order to produce cultural products that cater to them. Entertainment Industries describes the characteristics of entertainment, the systems that produce it, and the role of producers and audiences in its development, as well as explaining the importance of this area of study, and how it might be better integrated into Universities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.

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