Entertainment
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Entertainment is an activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person). The audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera, or actively as in computer games.[1]
The playing of sports and reading of literature are usually included in entertainment, but these are often called recreation, because they involve some active participation beyond mere leisure.
The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry.
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[edit] Examples of entertainment
[edit] Animation
Animation provides moving images. Cartoons are a comedic form of animation.[2] Anime or TV manga refers to animation originating from Japan in the Occidental use of the word. In Japan the word refers to all animation. It may contain adult themes and futuristic locations.[3]
[edit] Cinema
Cinema provides moving pictures as an art form. Cinema may also be called films or movies.[4]
[edit] Theatre
Theatre encompasses live performance such as plays, musicals, farces, monologues and pantomimes.
[edit] Circus
Circus acts include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, trapeze acts, hula hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists.[5]
[edit] Comedy
Comedy provides laughter and amusement. The audience is taken by surprise, by the parody or satire of an unexpected effect or an opposite expectations of their cultural beliefs. Slapstick film, one-liner joke, observational humor are forms of comedy which have developed since the early days of jesters and traveling minstrels.[6]
[edit] Comics
Comics comprise of text and drawings which convey an entertaining narrative.[7] Several famous comics revolve around super heroes such as Superman, Batman. Marvel Comics and DC Comics are two publishers of comic books. Manga is the Japanese word for comic and print cartoons.
Caricature is a graphical entertainment. The purpose may vary from merely putting smile on the viewers face, to raising social awareness, to highlighting the moral vices of a person being caricaturised.
[edit] Dance
Dance refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music,[8] used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance includes ballet, cancan, charleston, Highland fling, folk dance, sun dance, modern dance, polka and many more.[9]
[edit] Reading
Reading comprises the interpretation of written symbols.[10] An author, poet or playwright sets out a composition for publication to provide education or diversion for the reader. The format includes paperback or hard cover books, magazines, periodicals, puzzle books, crossword magazines and coloring books. Fantasy, horror, science fiction and mystery are forms of reading entertainment.
[edit] Games
Games provides relaxation and diversion usually following a rule set. Games may be played by one person for their own entertainment, or by a group games. Games may be played for achievement or monetary benefit such as gambling or bingo. Racing, chess or checkers may develop physical or mental prowess. Games may be geared for children, or may be played outdoors such as lawn bowling. Equipment may be necessary to play the game such as a deck of cards for card games, or a board and markers for board games such as Monopoly, or backgammon.[11] A few may be ball games, Blind man's bluff, board games, card games, children's games, Croquet, Frisbee, Hide and seek, Number games, Paintball, and Video games to name a few.
[edit] Music
Music is an art form combining rhythm, melody, harmony and/or vocals for entertainment, ceremonial or religious purposes.[12]
[edit] Other forms of Entertainment
- Corporate Entertainment and Conventions arise from an industrial or business setting for clients and or staff.
- Lecture
- Magic
- Mass media
- Revue
- Television
- Radio
[edit] See also
- Main list: List of basic entertainment topics
- Broadway theatre
- History of Film
- Leisure
- Literature
- Osamu Tezuka
- Philip Astley-father of the modern circus
- West End
[edit] External links
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ | title =entertainment - Definitions from Dictionary.com | work = | publisher =Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. | date =2007 | url =http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/entertainment | accessdate = 2007-11-30 }}
- ^ cartoon - Definitions from Dictionary.com. Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ anime - Definitions from Dictionary.com. Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ Harper, Douglas gfg (2001). fdgfg cinema- Definitions from Dictionary.com. rOnline Etymology Dictionary fd fdf. Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ Hoh, Lavahn G. (2004). The Circus in America: 1793 - 1940. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. University of Virginia. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ comedy. From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. HighBeam™ Research, Inc. (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ comic strip comic strip. Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
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- ^ Encyclopedia: Dance — Infoplease.com. Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease (2000–2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ reading - Encyclopedia.com. HighBeam™ Research, Inc (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ Games - MSN Encarta. Microsoft (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ music - definition of music by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. Farlex, Inc. (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
