Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You Book

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Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You
Written by author Peter Stromberg
Published by Stanford University Press, May 2009
Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade. Although we are likely to enjoy these experiences in the realm of entertainment, we rarely thi
Caught in Play reveals that though we engage stories, games, and images for fun, it does not follow that entertainment is trivial in its effect on our lives. Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Author and anthropology professor Str

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Foreword by Bradd Shore vii

Acknowledgments xi

1 Caught Up in the Game 1

2 Romantic Realism 21

3 Romanticism and the Birth of Consumer Culture 35

4 Role Playing 53

5 Looking Under the Hood 76

6 Meta-Action (the Bird's-Eye View) 97

7 Romance and the Romantic 110

8 Play and Agency in Legal Drug Use 126

9 The Oscillation Between Boredom and Stimulation 140

10 Entertainment and Our Understanding of the Self 160

Conclusion 174

Notes 179

References 199

Index 211

Title: Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You

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Item Number: 9780804761116

Publication Date: May 2009

Number: 2

Product Description: Full Name: Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You; Short Name:Caught in Play

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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

Width: 6.000 cm (2.36 inches)

Heigh : 9.000 cm (3.54 inches)

Depth: 0.700 cm (0.28 inches)

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Caught in Play

There is something gothic about Abraham and Torok's take on psychoanalysis: crypts and all. But then, there's something very gothic about psychoanalysis in general.

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