Entertainment

This paper explores the importance of Kendrick Lamar in the entertainment industry, in hip-hop and in American History. The essence of this paper explores his celebrity black body in relation to history, identity and his contribution to rich black historical archives on the black experience. At large, this paper examines his performance in his DNA music video, to see how his lived body, equipped with its historical DNA, informs our modern perception of the black body.

This paper, written from a feminist perspective, seeks to understand the oppressed black body in popular culture to see how public figures like Kendrick Lamar are reclaiming their history. By creating a rich archive of soulful music and meaningful videos, Kendrick is mainstreaming the black reality in a time where the African-American body is at a political crossroads.

Kendrick Lamar is writing history with his embodied performances and his profound written reflections and ensuring that future generations have a reference point in understanding, participating with and learning from their collective history.

The article discusses the production of live television formats, as they have developedin Europe the last decade. The analytical examples are taken from entertainment aswell as factual television, and from public service as well as commercial contexts. Inthe article is argued that there have been an approximation between the textualfeatures and generic and narrative structures of entertainment and factual livetelevision, and a model is presented, that is suppose to account for these narrativepatterns.

The history of the scienze fiction cinema from the "experimental joke" Le Voyage dans la lune of George Melies, across masterpieces like 2001 A Space Odissey and Star Wars to the colossal Avatar (the most expensive production in the cinema industry) with a special attention to the italian work and a focus on the space opera genre.
Subjects: introduction; 1- definition of scienze fiction; 2- the history of cinema and scienze fiction cinema 3-imitation and contamination across the different schools of cinema; 4-The space opera, definition and history 5- the history of the italian space opera production; 6-interviews to: Edoardo Margheriti, Giovanni Mongini, Luigi Cozzi, Daniele Terzoli, Luisella Chiribini, Tino Franco, Fabio Resinaro, Fabio Guaglione, Angelo Licata, Fabio Salvati, Andrea Ricca

A new way of spending leisure time browsing the Internet, using social networking sites, and playing games has created a new health problem: cell phone addiction. So-called phonoholism or netholism is most thriving among young people, who prioritize entertainment in the real world, which most often necessitates physical activity, over entertainment in the virtual world, which requires a more static approach. However, some companies have gone against the traditional use of phone games by creating multimedia city games that require a dynamic-movement approach. The aim of this review is to gather current theoretical knowledge about electronic forms of entertainment in the context of their influence on users' physical activity, creation of health potential and formation of risk of addiction to such forms of entertainment.

Abstract: This study explores how young women's definitions of empowerment relate to their reception of The Girls Next Door, a popular reality show that documents the life and fun times of Hugh Hefner's three sexy, live-in girlfriends. Specifically, we examine whether young women's general attraction to reality television relates to their endorsement of different views of women and empowerment, how these endorsements relate to the women's own sexual permissiveness, and finally how these views relate to perceptions of The Girls Next Door. Results suggest that reality television preferences relate to greater endorsement of sexual empowerment and traditional feminine roles. However, sexual permissiveness is elevated only when sexual empowerment is endorsed, and perceptions of the show appear to be most positive only when sexual permissiveness is elevated.
Citation: Cato, M., & Dillman Carpentier, F. R. (2010). Conceptualizations of female empowerment and enjoyment of sexualized characters in reality television. Mass Communication and Society, 13, 1-19.

In this article the author seeks to being establishing biblical boundaries for ethical discussion regarding entertainment. Recognized as a cultural force, leisure is an indelible part of the human experience. While embedded in a sinful world, leisure has its legitimate and important role in Christian life. The author argues that Christians should not refrain from partaking of this part of human life, but rather, should biblically inform his heart and follow the fourfold application of God’s law in choosing wisely how to live. The Christian needs to look at the clear commandments of God, to inform his own conscience, to be mindful of the weaker brethren and to be careful not to bring unnecessary scandal unto the culture around the church.

A host of theories including symbolic interactionism explains how media construct our social perceptions. Research suggests that stereotypes of blacks reinforce negative racial attitudes, whereas other findings suggest that blacks enjoy black media characters, even ones that may be considered stereotypical. Current research has yet to address or explain this discrepancy. The present study explores the impact of the race of co-viewers on blacks’ responses to stereotypical content in black films. An experiment was conducted where black participants viewed clips of black films with either an All black audience or a racially Mixed group with a majority white audience. Findings revealed that watching black films with white co-viewers did not influence blacks’ enjoyment or perception of bias; however, an interaction between viewing condition and influence target emerged such that when viewing among a racially Mixed audience, blacks expressed concern that portrayals in the film would negatively influence whites’ attitudes toward blacks and their likelihood to interact with black people more than themselves. Implications for race relations in a multicultural media landscape are discussed.

An important challenge for communication scientists is to characterize and understand hybrid genres. Satirical news is such a hybrid genre and comprises a blend of the genres of comedy, news, and political opinion. This theoretical article aims to contribute to this discussion by further specifying the concept of discursive mode. Discursive modes designate certain communicative orientations toward a particular genre element. We make our argument concrete by introducing a typology of metaphorical humor in satirical news. Our humoristic metaphors in satirical news (HMSN) typology, demonstrates that satirists can realize and switch between 4 different discursive modes through metaphors. These discursive modes comprise different combinations of core rhetorical functions in satirical news (humor, education, and evaluation). We describe each type of metaphor in our typology and present a research agenda identifying key issues that require future research and empirical verification.

This article is dedicated to board games as museums exhibits that so far have not
received due attention. Research on board games manufactured in Lithuania or
adopted for its market at the beginning of the twentieth century is based on the
objects kept at nine museum and private collections in Lithuania. Information from
contemporaneous literature, commercials, periodicals, and bookstore catalogues
was used as the source of contextual data. The analysed information suggests that
during the period discussed the main distributors of board games were bookstores,
but these games could also be purchased at toy shops or general stores. The distribution of board games started only after the lifting of the ban on the Lithuanian press, in the second half of the first decade. However, the amount of locally manufactured games significantly increased only in the 1920s. During the 1920s and the 1930s, the amount of advertising in the press noticeably grew thus showing an active competition among the manufacturers. In some cases, the competition even resulted in legal disputes and lawsuits related to board games. Compared to the diversity of the supply in Western Europe, the variety of locally manufactured board games during the discussed period is relatively poor. Available information suggests that in the first half of the twentieth century only eight different board games, sometimes in different versions, were manufactured by different Lithuanian companies.

Keywords: board games, entertainment, trade, advertising

Este projeto pretende analisar o show, objeto de estudo, em três áreas: como um tipo de evento, como um produto de mercado comercializável e como uma arena da comunicação, funcionando como uma mídia para as marcas. Para  compreendê-lo como um tipo de evento, o show foi classificado em diversas categorias discutidas pelos  estudiosos de Turismo e Relações Públicas até se chegar a um ponto em comum. Como produto, a atividade do show foi destrinchada nos níveis de produtos sugeridos por  Phillip Kotler (2000) e algumas características particulares foram identificadas, como, por exemplo, a possibilidade de, em um mesmo show, existirem vários tipos e níveis de produtos relacionados a ele. Como arena da comunicação, as empresas utilizam-se da associação de ideias que o show viabiliza. Associar a marca a um artista ou a um momento pode ser extremamente agregador. Dois casos foram estudados para embasar os pontos discutidos na pesquisa: o festival São João da Capitá, realizado pelo  Chevrolet Hall, e os dois shows realizados por Paul McCartney no Estádio José do Rego Maciel, produzido pela Luan Promoções. Uma breve análise do contexto atual do show business recifense foi discutida entre o autor e profissionais atuantes do mercado.

Booklet from Collective Contract exhibition (The FRAG Collective 25 February -26 March 2022, POP-UP Gallery, the Academy of Arts in Prague) connecting some of the key problems of WORK / ENTERTAINMENT / REST today.
text by Václav Janoščík and the FRAG collective
graphic design: Artur Magrot

An extensive body of research has already illustrated the myriad ways in which media help form perceptions of various social groups. Theories such as cultivation, stereotype theory, social learning, and social identity theory all discuss how audiences can internalize what they see presented in the media, and project that information onto their beliefs about reality.

This article traverses aspects of a personal journey of a humanities scholar, trained in traditional disciplines of textual analysis and aesthetic appreciation, working with evolutionary economics. Reflecting on a 2008 article for the Journal of Cultural Economics that hypothesised the importance of social network markets as a new definition of creative industries, the article notes how remarkably this had come to pass, with the emergence of social media entertainment. This new industry is based on previously amateur creators engaging in content innovation and media entrepreneurship across multiple social media platforms to aggregate global fan communities and incubate their own media brands. The implications of social media entertainment for screen policy, both through cultural and industry agency support and through regulation and programme innovation, are explored internationally as well as in the context of the current Australian Content and Children’s Review.

In Nepal, the adult entertainment sector (AES) is perceived as a high-risk
environment for children where sexual exploitation is known to occur. The AES is made up of a diverse range of venues that includes restaurants, folk dance bars, erotic dance bars, massage parlours, guest houses, and hotels.
This Working Paper seeks to understand the reasons why the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) exists in the AES, focusing on how social and cultural norms reinforce and reproduce the material and structural realities of the sector. It also explores how these norms affect the employment trajectories of minors and looks at the role of labour intermediaries – both formal and informal – in intentionally or unintentionally supporting the employment of minors in the AES.

O autor investiga o fenômeno da busca humana por diversão no arcabouço teológico de criação-queda-redenção. Ele demonstra como o homem foi criado para existir como um ser criativo na presença de Deus. Como tal, tudo o que ele cria reflete a criação original em sua organização e elementos diversos. O ser humano se deleita na diversão, pois se trata de uma subcriação na qual ele experimenta elementos para os quais foi criado, como descanso, prazer, alegria e beleza. Depois se analisa como a queda influencia a busca humana de diversão, fazendo com meio de coisas criadas. Por fim, investiga-se como o desiderium aeternitatis e a compreensão da necessidade de redenção levam os seres humanos a buscar na diversão consolo e fuga deste mundo, experimentando um pouco da paz e vida para as quais foram criados.

Examining Melissa McCarthy’s performances as host of Saturday Night Live, this paper demonstrates how stereotypes of low social class are used to manage the seeming contradictions of obesity within contemporary US media culture. Despite the so-called obesity epidemic – in which obesity signifies moral and social decay – body image heroines such as the plus-sized McCarthy offer uplifting narratives of self-confidence and self-acceptance. These contradictory impulses, however, are simply two complementary modes of neoliberal self-governance, offering different forms of cultural citizenship based on self-transformation and self-promotion. McCarthy’s stardom reveals the role that social class plays in managing these neoliberal trajectories. McCarthy’s comic performances rely heavily on caricatures of vulgar, low-class obesity, and yet her public persona is that of a polite, middle-class everywoman. In this way, McCarthy’s persona indicates how the stereotypes of the obesity epidemic can be appropriated by middle-class audiences as indicators of confidence within the regime of neoliberal self-actualisation.

More and more video games are part of the everydays lives of most kids, teenagers,
youth and human beings in general. Although many of these can be considered
violent or inappropriate for some people, the truth is that they all have something to
teach, something that is not completely visible to the eye of the ordinary human
being.
This work was then carried out in order to understand and comprehend video
games, and more importantly, study their influence on human behavior as well as in
learning.
To achieve that, it was necessary to understand the part of psychology involved in
this relationship, and equally important, investigate its consequences (good and
bad), the cognitive processes involved and, of course, conduct some tests on a
sample of population.

And now, time for some inconvenient truth. Off late (at the onset
of the global climate-crisis) various cultural practices are being reexamined
in terms of awareness, contribution, commitment and
possible change. Staggering amounts of evidence shows that
burning fossil fuels and a heat-based civilisation is the single
biggest contributor to environmental destruction and consequently
the climate crisis.

Despite challenges posed by recent global slowdown, economic fundamentals of Bangladesh remain quiet strong. Economic growth momentum in fiscal year 2018 was underpinned by strong domestic & external demand as reflected in buoyant public and private investment, and consumption, driven by consistent rising exports, remittances, and private credit growth relative to last 05 years. A remarkable impetus of economic stability of our country has been driven by the positive movement of Manufacturing, Service, Hotel & Tourism, & other sectors.

In order to achieve sustainable economic growth, the travel and tourism sector plays an important role to reduce social, economic, environmental and cultural barriers. Some of the major obstacles to this growth are the lack of infrastructure, environmental degradation and fragile linkages that weaken a country’s tourism potential public-private sector partnerships that not only enable a country to grow economically, but retain the essential social, cultural and environmental assets that make each country a unique product.

In order to cater to the growing demand of quality tourism/leisure activities in Bangladesh, the promoter SIMCO Holdings Limited, a sister concern of SIMCO group has planned to develop a sophisticated and economically viable resort at Gazipur with a fixed project cost of BDT 1,343.96 million. The project address is located at Rajendropur, Gazipur Dhaka, Bangladesh which is about 60 Km from Zero (0) point of Dhaka and takes approximately 2 and half hour’s drive from Dhaka on highway. The Resort location consisting with natural environment of calm and peaceful space, strictly maintains international standard in its design. A discrete location surrounded by forest is one of its unique delights

Humor is rooted in fear. Laughter is a type of screaming.  The surest way to make someone giggle is to attack them, physically or verbally. A series of experiments showed that the conventional wisdom, that laughter is about surprises, is false. Punchlines are optional. Tension is not.

Revue non exhaustive de la richesse des créations foraines européennes dites "classiques" (1850 - 1950).

Non-exhaustive review of the european funfair/fairground creations of the "classic" age (1850 - 1950).

Pour aller plus loin, voir le site de Marc Grodwohl:  http://www.marc-grodwohl.com/

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Course Description: What is going on in the media industries today? What kinds of issues and challenges are entertainment industry professionals dealing with? This class has two key goals: First, students will learn how the media industries operate, gaining a sense of the "big picture" of the contemporary film, television, and digital video landscape. Large-scale issues being faced by those working in the entertainment industry-including the impact of conglomerate ownership, regulation, globalization, and digitization on creative practices and work roles-will be addressed through readings and class discussion. Second, students will hear from a range of guest speakers coming from Hollywood, New York, and Texas about their personal experiences navigating the media business, past and present. While a few of those visiting the class will work in production (writing, producing, etc.), most of our guests will work in other types of creative, managerial, and executive roles (e.g., talent management, business affairs, marketing and distribution, etc.). Class discussion will focus in part on connecting guests' experiences to larger industrial practices and concerns. Objectives and Outcomes: By the end of this course, you should be able to… • Recognize how industry mandates, conditions, and practices shape media products; • Understand key debates and issues being discussed by media professionals today; • Identify how digital technologies are affecting longstanding practices in film and TV; • Appreciate how individuals are navigating diverse career paths in the media industries, balancing creative pressures and economic imperatives.

Abstract: Two experiments (Ns = 314, 447) were used to evaluate the effectiveness of sexual cues in temporarily increasing young adults’ self-reported sexual permissiveness, as well as the effects of romantic cues in temporarily decreasing permissiveness. Participants were exposed to sexual or romantic cues embedded as a theme-defining component of an online game (Study 1) or in advertisements peripheral to the online game (Study 2). Sexual and romantic conditions were compared against a control condition. As hypothesized, participants in the romantic conditions rated themselves lower in sexual permissiveness, compared to participants in the sexual and control conditions, particularly when participants positively evaluated the online game experience. Findings suggest that exposure to entertaining media depictions of two people, as a committed couple, expressing love, as well as lust, for each other might deter young adults from considering engagement in casual sexual encounters indicative of “hookup culture.”
Citation: Dillman Carpentier, F. R. (2017). Priming sexual and romantic representations in two media environments: Sex encourages and romance discourages sexual permissiveness…sometimes. Journal of Sex Research, 54, 706-716.

Before I begin, I must say here that the purpose of this paper is not really to provide answers but to be able to make recommendations to us, because there are clearly more people in this panel and this audience that are a lot more knowledgeable in this industry than I am. It is a frame option so that we as stakeholders can see a clearer path towards of achieving the best of our collective interest. I have before me here the topic o ‘perspectives on the Synergy between the entertainment industry and the media sector in Nigeria’. If you look through the roles of the media when you look back at how the industry has evolved and how the industry is right now. We would look at media consumption patterns and we would seek out ways which in my humble opinion, we can seek out the industry of our dreams.

The patterns of content consumption have changed drastically over a period of the last 20 years and as technology is making advancements in almost every arena, the evolution can be seen in the trends of entertainment and media services Consumers have now turned towards Over-The-Top i.e OTT Platforms which allow them to stream their choice of content via the means of the internet, instead of holding on to the more traditional forms of media. Consumers are now ready to pay more and more in order to customize their streaming experience at their convenience and this in turn is helping the entertainment industry thrive. Ever since the lockdown was imposed in the country in lieu of the Coronavirus pandemic, more and more consumers are seeking out ways to keep themselves entertained at home. This study focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic towards the consumer buying behaviour towards OTT platforms, specifically exploring the market of subscription based streaming services. By using various statistical tools, information and numeric data was collected and research and analysis was conducted. This study will help various marketers and the employees of the entertainment industry in getting a closer look at the expectations of both the actual and potential customer base and assist them in delivering a better service while increasing engagement.