ISBN: 9780804761109

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 … More...

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 Play looks 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, entertainment generates commitments to values we are not always willing to acknowledge: values of pleasure, self-indulgence, and consumption. For more information, please visit www. caughtinplay. com. | Caught in Play by Peter G. Stromberg Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Social Science > Anthropology P10102, Peter G. Stromberg<

ISBN: 9780804761109

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 … More...

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 Play looks 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, entertainment generates commitments to values we are not always willing to acknowledge: values of pleasure, self-indulgence, and consumption.For more information, please visit www.caughtinplay.com. Books > Social Science > Anthropology List_Books, [PU: Stanford University Press]<

2009, ISBN: 9780804761109

'Caught in Play' reveals that though we engage stories, games, and images for fun, it does not follow that entertainment is trivial in its effect on our lives. Buch (fremdspr.) Peter G. S… More...

'Caught in Play' reveals that though we engage stories, games, and images for fun, it does not follow that entertainment is trivial in its effect on our lives. Buch (fremdspr.) Peter G. Stromberg gebundene Ausgabe, Stanford University Press, 01.06.2009, Stanford University Press, 2009<

ISBN: 9780804761109

Hardback, [PU: Stanford University Press], Caught in Play reveals that though we engage stories, games, and images for fun, it does not follow that entertainment is trivial in its effect … More...

Hardback, [PU: Stanford University Press], Caught in Play reveals that though we engage stories, games, and images for fun, it does not follow that entertainment is trivial in its effect on our lives., Social & Cultural Anthropology<

ISBN: 0804761108

Caught in Play ab 65.99 EURO How Entertainment Works on You Medien > Bücher, [PU: Stanford University Press]