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Only Entertainment explores entertainment as entertainment, examining how pleasure shapes different art forms across genres. Dyer analyzes musicals, action movies, disco, and adult entertainment, using films like The Sound of Music and Speed to illustrate how entertainment functions as a culturally and historically constructed 'common sense'. This new edition from Routledge features a revised introduction and five new chapters exploring serial killer movies and contemporary entertainment trends. The book challenges conventional thinking about what separates entertainment from other artistic expressions, offering readers critical insights into how entertainment industries construct meaning and engage audiences across diverse media.

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Only Entertainment by Routledge examines entertainment genres including musicals, action films, disco, and adult content through academic analysis.

The revised edition includes five new chapters focused on serial killer movies, updating Dyer's influential framework for contemporary entertainment studies.

Dyer's analysis of films such as The Sound of Music and Speed demonstrates how entertainment operates as historically and culturally constructed common sense.

This book offers critical theory on how entertainment differs from other art forms, emphasising the role of pleasure in audience engagement.

Routledge's edition provides both foundational entertainment theory and current case studies relevant to media studies and film criticism courses.

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Release Date
25 April 2002
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