Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention. Although people's attention is held by different things, because individuals have different preferences in entertainment, most forms are recognisable and familiar. Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures, were supported in royal courts, developed into sophisticated forms and …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …

young age, the movies provided another means of entertainment. The most popular were Westerns and adventure


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

were no televisions or radios. Our form of entertainment came through the voice of my dad, an amazing


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …

Bādīs fueled their poetic rivalry for his own entertainment.11 After the Hilālī invasion, Ibn Sharaf left


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 29 October 2024 English

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …

newspaper that cov- ered news, culture, arts, and entertainment, and realized fame was about reproducing an


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Brook’s distinction between holy theatre, a quasi-sacred vocation, and deadly theatre, a momentary entertainment. Combining contextualized interpretations of the series with subtle formalist readings, Kuchar scholarship. The result is a demonstration of how and why Shakespeare continues to provide not just entertainment, but equipment for living.

one in which drama is not simply a form of entertainment but a potentially dangerous, because trans- meaningful distinc- tions can still be drawn between entertainment and art, aesthetic truth and commercial advertising


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …

through solid objects. In this way, the popular entertainment reinforced already ex- isting perceptions of developments in visual technologies and pop- ular entertainment, and such techniques better expressed the liminal technology, knowledge, representation, and entertainment in modern culture.”65 In their capacity to document Although the Court acknowledged the utility and entertainment value of the moving image, the cinema’s potential optical science and in visual spectacle and entertainment, photo- graphs manifest a positivist, empirical


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

Corporation to adopt, in order to counter the “mere” entertainment of US broadcasting, produced unremitting blandness has been regarded merely as a provider of entertainment and has thus been deemed “non-political” (124;


DDN: Dundurn Press · 8 October 2024 English

101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans. Do you know who was in the first on-screen nude scene in a Canadian feature film? Or which David Cronenberg …

The only book that knows more about Canadian entertainment might be Atom Egoyan’s personal diary. — Barry and Middleton Dime Museum. Dime museums were entertainment venues popular in the late nineteenth century commercial films whose only purpose was for entertainment and spectacle. The recent formation of the


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.

no-less- voraciously imperialist Anglophone mass entertainment manufactured in that same southern republic


DDN: Dundurn Press · 24 September 2024 English

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2024“With a lush, tropical setting, an entrancing protagonist, and swirling ghosts that guide and subvert, Gonzalez has crafted a darkly romantic, …

Their picture would appear in the next day’s entertainment section — a striking young vixen and a roguish


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