Entertainment Reviews

Studies on mass culture have occupied an important place in efforts to understand contemporary society, especially since the 1950s. It has been discussed for a long time what entertainment, television, music, comics, soap operas and advertisements represent and what function they have in daily life, which is the area where political ideologies are directly or indirectly embodied. In this debate, it can be roughly said that there are two sides: On the one hand, those who accept mass culture as a form of mass control techniques and see in "high art" the possibility of real opposition and negation. Entertainment Reviews is a book that brings together the studies done so far in mass culture criticism, the "legacy" of cultural criticism, tries to bring the two different attitudes we mentioned above together, and shows the points where these attitudes are similar. In this sense, it can be seen as an anthology that reveals criticisms of mass culture. The book, which collects articles on different areas ranging from the music industry to the mood of the television audience, from the quality of news presenters to soap operas, from how the female image is used in advertisements to the relationship between horror movies and postmodernism, serves as a map reflecting the various views of the cultural environment we live in. Entertainment Studies is a handbook that can be used to look at various lifestyles that have been widespread in Turkey for a while and are an integral part of daily life, as well as movies, the position of art, and the forms that the status of femininity takes in the society of spectacle.



Number of Pages: 260

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

Prepared by: Beril Eyüboglu

First Printing Year: 1998

Number of Pages: 260

Language Turkish