Caught in play
Subtitle: how entertainment works on you
By: Peter G. Stromberg.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780804761109; 9780804761116
Subjects: Amusements -- Social aspects; Play -- Social aspects; Recreation -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Caught up in the game; title: Romantic realism; title: Romanticism and the birth of consumer culture; title: Role-playing; title: Looking under the hood; title: Meta-action (the bird's-eye view); title: Romance and the romantic; title: Play and agency in legal drug use; title: The oscillation between boredom and stimulation; title: Entertainment and our understanding of the self.