TY - BOOK ID - 137337367 TI - Caught in play PY - 2009 SN - 0804771278 9780804771276 9780804761109 0804761108 9780804761116 0804761116 PB - Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Amusements KW - Play KW - Recreation KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137337367 AB - 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 think about what effect they might be having on us. Precisely because it is so pervasive, entertainment is difficult to understand and even to talk about. To understand the social role of entertainment, Caught in Play looks closely at how we engage entertainment and at the ideas and practices it creates and sustains. Though entertainment is for fun, it does not follow that it is trivial in its effect on our lives. As this work reveals, entertainment generates commitments to values we are not always willing to acknowledge: values of pleasure, self-indulgence, and consumption. For more information, please visit www.caughtinplay.com. ER -