[ecrea] New book on fun

“FUN! What entertainment tells us about living a good life” is a new 
book about media and culture by Professor Alan McKee. Combining media 
effects with aesthetic approaches this book offers the first 
substantial, systematic and coherent account of fun and its importance. 
But what exactly is fun and what purposes does it serve? Fun is a vital 
element of entertainment, and entertainment is the most important form 
of culture in modern Western democracies. It demonstrates that fun is at 
the heart of entertainment's effects – entertainment both offers its 
consumers fun and provides them with the intellectual materials to think 
about the nature of fun.

More than this, the book argues that entertainment shows us that fun – 
pleasure without purpose – is at the heart of living a good life. 
Illustrated with detailed examples from entertainment – from the Urban 
Dictionary to The Simpsons, to the Culture novels of Iain M Banks – this 
book is intelligent, original, and even (dare we say it) fun.

Previews available at http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137491787

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Associate Dean (Research and Development)

*Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences *|*University of Technology, Sydney*

Level 14, 235 Jones St, Ultimo NSW 2007

ERA 4 in “Language, Communication and Culture”**

*P:*+61 2 9514 3630 *E:* (alan.mckee /at/ uts.edu.au) 
<mailto:(alan.mckee /at/ uts.edu.au)> *W: *www.fass.uts.edu.au 
<http://www.fass.uts.edu.au/>

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