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[ecrea] CFP: Palgrave Entertainment Industries

Fri Nov 24 07:39:50 GMT 2017


Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce the following call for proposals:

*_Palgrave Entertainment Industries_*

*Series editors:*

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*Christy Collis*

Queensland University of Technology

Australia

*Stephen Harrington *

Queensland University of Technology

Australia

*Alan McKee*

University of Technology Sydney

Australia

Palgrave Entertainment Industries is the first series to take an empirical multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of entertainment—defined as “audience-centred culture”.  The series understands the work of culture by studying production (including distribution), texts and consumption practices. While maintaining a sophisticated and reflective intellectual stance, Palgrave Entertainment Industries leaves behind anti-empirical “mass-culture” models of commercial culture in order to take an evidence-based approach to entertainment as a cultural system.

Entertainment has been an integral component of everyday lives throughout modernity, remaining remarkably consistent in its textual features for over two hundred years. It is the form of most culture consumed by the majority of citizens of Western countries. The entertainment industries are diverse, encompassing sectors including film, radio and sports, music, television, casinos and live events/festivals, and were estimated to be worth more than US$2.2 trillion in 2012, in addition to employing millions of people around the world.

This innovative series addresses the lack of academic attention devoted to entertainment by examining the ways that entertainment as a product, as an industry and as an activity can be understood in our society.

_Series advisory board: _

Jonathan Gray, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Henry Jenkins III, USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, USA

Shay Sayre, California State University, Fullerton, USA

Liesbet van Zoonen, Loughborough University, UK

_RECENT TITLES_

/Entertainment Values: //How do we Assess Entertainment and Why does it Matter?/(2017) http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137472892

/FUN! //What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good Life /(2016) http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137491787

Please send proposals to series editor Christy Collis, Queensland University of Technology, Australia: (c.collis /at/ qut.edu.au) <mailto:(c.collis /at/ qut.edu.au)>

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For full details please visit our website https://www.palgrave.com/gb/series/14706


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