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Mass Entertainment
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Author : Asa Briggs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Mass Entertainment written by Asa Briggs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Amusements categories.
Mass Entertainment
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Author : Harold Mendelsohn
language : en
Publisher: New Haven : College & University Press
Release Date : 1966
Mass Entertainment written by Harold Mendelsohn and has been published by New Haven : College & University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Social Science categories.
Pleasing Everyone
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Author : Jeffrey Knapp (Professor of English)
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Pleasing Everyone written by Jeffrey Knapp (Professor of English) and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Art categories.
Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema. Through fascinating explorations of such famous plays as Hamlet, The Roaring Girl, and The Alchemist, and such celebrated films as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, and City Lights, Knapp challenges some of our most basic assumptions about the relationship between art and mass audiences. Above all, Knapp encourages us to resist the prejudice that mass entertainment necessarily simplifies and cheapens whatever it touches. As Knapp shows, it was instead the ceaseless pressure to please everyone that helped generate the astonishing richness and complexity of Renaissance drama as well as of Hollywood film.
Publishers For Mass Entertainment In Nineteenth Century America
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Author : Madeleine B. Stern
language : en
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
Release Date : 1980
Publishers For Mass Entertainment In Nineteenth Century America written by Madeleine B. Stern and has been published by Hall Reference Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Soul Of Pleasure
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Author : David Monod
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-24
The Soul Of Pleasure written by David Monod and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with History categories.
Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. Show people discovered that they had to adapt entertainment to the moral outlook of Americans, which they did by appealing to sentiment.The Soul of Pleasure explores several controversial forms of popular culture—minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows—and places them in the context of changing values and perceptions. Far from challenging respectability, Monod argues that entertainments reflected and transformed the audience's ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, sentimentality not only infused performance styles and the content of shows but also altered the expectations of the theatergoing public. Sentimental entertainment depended on sensational effects that produced surprise, horror, and even gales of laughter. After the Civil War the sensational charge became more important than the sentimental bond, and new forms of entertainment gained in popularity and provided the foundations for vaudeville, America’s first mass entertainment. Ultimately, it was American entertainment’s variety that would provide the true soul of pleasure.
Studies In Entertainment
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Author : Tania Modleski
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1986
Studies In Entertainment written by Tania Modleski and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Social Science categories.
"This is an important book for all students of literature and history." -- American Studies International ..". thoughtful and provocative.... the essays... grant complexity and contradiction to mass culture, while interrogating its objects from positions that -- explicitly or implicitly -- derive from the left and from feminism." -- The Independent These innovative and politically engaged essays reflect the paradox inherent in taking a critical approach to mass culture. The contributors, in many cases pioneers in their particular area of inquiry, include: Tania Modleski, Raymond Williams (interviewed here by Stephen Heath and Gillian Skirrow), Bernard Gendron, Rick Altman, Margaret Morse, Patricia Mellencamp, Judith Williamson, Jean Franco, Kaja Silverman, Dana Polan, and Andreas Huyssen.
Mass Entertainment
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Author : Harold A. Mendelsohn
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Mass Entertainment written by Harold A. Mendelsohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Palaces Of Pleasure
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Author : Lee Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-25
Palaces Of Pleasure written by Lee Jackson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-25 with History categories.
An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century’s growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up prudes, the Victorians reveled in these newly created ‘palaces of pleasure’. In this vivid, captivating book, Lee Jackson charts the rise of well-known institutions such as gin palaces, music halls, seaside resorts and football clubs, as well as the more peculiar attractions of the pleasure garden and international exposition, ranging from parachuting monkeys and human zoos to theme park thrill rides. He explores how vibrant mass entertainment came to dominate leisure time and how the attempts of religious groups and secular improvers to curb ‘immorality’ in the pub, variety theater and dance hall faltered in the face of commercial success. The Victorians’ unbounded love of leisure created a nationally significant and influential economic force: the modern entertainment industry.
The Arena Concert
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Author : Benjamin Halligan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-11-19
The Arena Concert written by Benjamin Halligan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Music categories.
The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the 21st century. This volume offers interviews with key designers, discussions of the practicalities of mounting arena concerts, mixing and performing live to a mass audience, recollections of the giants of late twentieth century music in performance, and critiques of latter-day pretenders to the throne. The authors track the evolution of the arena concert, consider design and architecture, celebrity and fashion, and turn to feminism, ethnographic research, and ideas of humour, liveness and authenticity, in order to explore and frame the arena concert. The arena concert becomes the “real time” centre of a global digital network, and the gig-goer pays not only for an immersion in (and, indeed, role in) its spectacular nature, but also for a close encounter with the performers, in this contained and exalted space. The spectacular nature of the arena concert raises challenges that have yet to be fully technologically overcome, and has given rise to a reinvention of what live music actually means. Love it or loathe it, the arena concert is a major presence in the cultural landscape of the 21st century. This volume finds out why.
Mass Entertainment
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Author : Asa Briggs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Mass Entertainment written by Asa Briggs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Agriculture categories.