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Cinema entertainment : essays on audiences, films and film-makers / Alan Lovell and Gianluca Sergi.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.S6 L68 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lovell, Alan, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 140 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Maidenhead, England ; New York : Open University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Entertainment is a defining feature of contemporary culture, yet it is often accused of being superficial and even harmful. The authors challenge this negative view and argue for a reconsideration of the value of entertainment and the effect it has on the world in which we live.
- Contents:
- What audiences go for : elite and mass taste
- Sensual pleasure, audiences, and The dark knight
- Alfred Hitchcock : the entertainer becomes an artist
- Stephen Spielberg, Indiana Jones, and the Holocaust
- The perspective of entertainers? Interviews with Randy Thom and Walter Murch
- The entertainment discourse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-133) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780335222520
- 0335222528
- 033522251X
- 9780335222513
- OCLC:
- 302068570
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