What ’s Entertainment? Notes Toward a Definition 1
Stephen Bates and Anthony J. Ferri
What’s Entertainment? Notes Toward a Definition
Introduction
Entertainment has been a part of all cultures‚ from the Chauvet Cave paintings to the iPad. For Rothman‚ it is “the storehouse of national values” (xviii). Perhaps nowhere is that observation more apt than in the United States‚ a nation that Gabler terms a “republic of entertainment” (11). Many Americans seem to feel entitled to high-quality
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