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Author / Creator:Dyer, Richard.
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Description:x, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4721447
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ISBN:0415254965 (HB)
0415254973 (PB)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Idea of Entertainment
  • 3. A Bit of Uplift: Classical Ballet
  • 4. Quality Pleasures
  • 5. Entertainment and Utopia
  • 6. The Colour of Entertainment
  • 7. The Sound of Music
  • 8. Sweet Charity
  • 9. Action!
  • 11. Lethal Repetition
  • 12. First a Star: Elizabeth Taylor
  • 13. The Son of the Sheik
  • 14. Don't Look Now: the Instabilities of the Male Pin-Up
  • 15. Coming to Terms: Gay Pornography
  • 16. In Defence of Disco
  • 17. Getting Over the Rainbow: Identity and Pleasure in Gay Cultural Politics
  • 18. The Waning of Entertainment