Caught in Play How Entertainment Works on You

Name: Caught in Play How Entertainment Works on You
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ISBN: 9780804761116

ISBN-10: 0804761116

ISBN-13: 9780804761116

Edition: 2009

Authors: Peter G. Stromberg

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Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade. Although we are likely to enjoy these experiences in the realm of entertainment, we rarely think about what effect they might be having on us. Precisely because it is so pervasive, entertainment is difficult to understand and even to talk about. To understand the social role of entertainment,Caught in Playlooks closely at how we engage entertainment and at the ideas and practices it creates and sustains. Though entertainment is for fun, it does not follow that it is trivial in its effect on our lives. As this work reveals,…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.09" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Foreword by Bradd Shore


Acknowledgments



Caught Up in the Game



Romantic Realism



Romanticism and the Birth of Consumer Culture



Role Playing



Looking Under the Hood



Meta-Action (the Bird's-Eye View)



Romance and the Romantic



Play and Agency in Legal Drug Use



The Oscillation Between Boredom and Stimulation



Entertainment and Our Understanding of the Self


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index