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Computers and entertainment

Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1980, national computer conference on - AFIPS '80, 1980
In response to a paper I wrote last year on computer technology and the movie industry, Dick Thompson, a special effects professional, commented, "There is much more involvement in computer technology in "show business" than anyone suspects. You are just beginning to turn over the rock---or is it a can of worms?" Dick's question remains to be answered ...
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Entertainment is Emotion: The Functional Architecture of the Entertainment Experience

Media Psychology, 2008
Current standard accounts of entertainment have regarded emotions as essential for the entertainment experience, but it has not been understood why emotions are so important for it. Recent views of entertainment as an adaptively significant activity propose that the distal cause of entertainment activity is an unconscious need for training useful ...
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Mass Entertainment Before Mass Entertainment

New Literary History, 2013
Most theorists of mass entertainment restrict the phenomenon to the machine age. This essay argues that mass entertainment is more cogently defined in relation to the audience for whom it is intended rather than to the technologies for its production and distribution.
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Entertainment

1992
Abstract Entertainment, entertaining guests, and entertaining an idea have in common the root word entertain (from the Latin tenere), meaning to hold or to keep steady, busy, or amused. The mod ern definition of entertainment is any narrative, PERFORMANCE, or other experience that can be sold to and enjoyed by large and heterogeneous ...
Erik Barnouw, Catherine E Kirkland
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Mathematical entertainments

The Mathematical Intelligencer, 1987
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Entertainment Interfaces

Entertainment Computing, 2011
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