Entertainment Values

1. How can we value entertainment? And, why does it matter? Stephen Harrington.- 2. What is Entertainment? The value of industry definitions: Christy Collis.-3. From toyetic to toyesis: the cultural value of merchandising: Jason Bainbridge.- 4. Screaming on a Ride To Nowhere: What Roller Coasters Teach Us about Being Human: Dana Anderson and Malcolm Burt.-5. Entertainment for the Mind, Body and Spirit: Tyrha M. Lindsey-Warren.-6. Talking Miley: The Value of Celebrity Gossip: Toija Cinque and Sean Redmond.- 7. MasterChef Australia: educating and empowering through entertainment: Katherine Kirkwood.- 8. Public and private adolescent lives: the educational value of entertainment: Pilar Lacasa, Laura Méndez and Sara Cortés.- 9 From Moomba to The Dreaming: Indigenous Australia, Popular Music and Cultural Reconciliation: Andrew King.- 10. Entering The Newsroom: The Sociocultural Value of 'Semi-Fictional' Entertainment and Popular CommunicationChris Peters.- 11 What if 'journalism' is the problem?: Entertainment and the 'de-mediatization' of politics:Stephen Harrington.- 12 Spoof videos: Entertainment and Alternative Memory in China: Henry Siling Li.- 13. Decoding Memes: Barthes' Punctum, Feminist Standpoint Theory, and the Political Significance of #YesAllWomen: Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner.- 14. Why I wasn't interested in Hitchcock until I turned 40: Valuing films as entertainment: Alan McKee.- 15. Fluff, frivolity and the fabulous Samantha Jones: Representations of public relations in entertainment: Ella Chorazy and Stephen Harrington.- 16. From Deep Throat to Don Jon: the pornographication of cinematic entertainment: Brian McNair.- 17 To Understand the Futures of Filmgoing, We Must Know Its Histories: Henry Jenkins.-