Bosshart, Louis
Macconi, Ilaria
1998
Introduction in Bosshart, L et al ~ Media Entertainment

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“The reason lies, instead, in the scant attention paid by serious researchers to theories of entertainment. There is simply no positive correlation between the amount of entertainment that is consumed and the amount of scholarly research in the field of entertainment. More ‘noble’ topics, such as the interactions of media and democracy, attract much mainstream research. but “mere entertainment” seems too humdrum for serious attention.”