Entertainment Values

1. How Can We Value Entertainment? And, Why Does It Matter?
Stephen Harrington

2. What Is Entertainment? The Value of Industry Definitions
Christy Collis

3. From Toyetic to Toyesis: The Cultural Value of Merchandising
Jason Bainbridge

4. Screaming on a Ride to Nowhere: What Roller Coasters Teach Us About Being Human
Dana Anderson, Malcolm Burt

5. Entertainment for the Mind, Body and Spirit
Tyrha M. Lindsey-Warren

6. Talking Miley: The Value of Celebrity Gossip
Toija Cinque, Sean Redmond

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MasterChef Australia: Educating and Empowering Through Entertainment
Katherine Kirkwood

8. Public and Private Adolescent Lives: The Educational Value of Entertainment
Pilar Lacasa, Laura Méndez, Sara Cortés

9. From Moomba to the Dreaming: Indigenous Australia, Popular Music and Reconciliation
Andrew King

10. Entering The Newsroom: The Sociocultural Value of ‘Semi-Fictional’ Entertainment and Popular Communication
Chris Peters

11. What If ‘Journalism’ Is the Problem?: Entertainment and the ‘De-mediatization’ of Politics
Stephen Harrington

12. Spoof Videos: Entertainment and Alternative Memory in China
Henry Siling Li

13. Decoding Memes: Barthes’ Punctum, Feminist Standpoint Theory, and the Political Significance of #YesAllWomen
Whitney Phillips, Ryan M Milner

14. Why I Wasn’t Interested in Hitchcock Until I Turned 40: Valuing Films as Entertainment
Alan McKee

15. Fluff, Frivolity, and the Fabulous Samantha Jones: Representations of Public Relations in Entertainment
Ella Chorazy, Stephen Harrington

16. From Deep Throat to Don Jon: The Pornographication of Cinematic Entertainment
Brian McNair

17. To Understand the Futures of Film-going, We Must Know Its Histories
Henry Jenkins

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Industries, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Cultural Heritage, Sociology of Culture