Entertainment Industries : Entertainment as a Cultural System (Hardcover)

Introduction: Entertainment and Media/Cultural/Communication/Etc Studies  Part I: What is Entertainment?  Chapter 1. The aesthetic system of entertainment: pornography as case study  Chapter 2. Crime as entertainment  Chapter 3. Toying with culture: the rise of the action figure and the changing face of 'children's' entertainment  Chapter 4. Towards an understanding of Australian genre cinema and entertainment: beyond the limitations of ‘Ozploitation’ discourse  Part II: The Institutions of Entertainment  Chapter 5. The borders that law sets on entertainment  Chapter 6. Music supervisors in the Australian entertainment film industry  Chapter 7. Explaining Pathe’s global dominance in the pre-Hollywood film industry  Part III: Entertainment and Its Audiences  Chapter 8. The "good" fans and "bad" consumers of football  Chapter 9. Loyalty and the ritualistic consumption of entertainment  Part IV: Entertainment Education  Chapter 10. Teaching entertainment at Universities  Chapter 11. Top Gear, Top Journalism: Three lessons for political journalists from the world’s most popular TV show  Chapter 12. Transmedia storytelling and entertainment: an annotated syllabus