Entertainment
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Entertainment is an event, performance, product, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, 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. Entertainment is the result from the process which amuses, pleases, or diverts a person.[1]
The playing of sports and reading of literature are usually included in entertainment, but these are often called recreation more specifically, 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 artificially moving images which are usually humorous. 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 locales.[3]
[edit] Cinema
Cinema provides moving pictures as an art form which display theatrical works or sport games on film or celluloid. Cinema may also be called films or movies.[4]
[edit] Theatre
Theatre encompasses live performance such as live theatre, plays, musicals, farces, monologues and pantomimes. There are several different forms and genres that actors and actresses may use to present the story line to their audience, ranging widely with playwrights, venue, cultural backgrounds, and events to be portrayed.
[edit] Circus
Circus acts provide an entertainment outlet for kids of all ages. A traveling company of performers such as acrobats, clowns, trained animals, trapeze acts, hula hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists come together with acts that may dazzle, surprise or impress the viewer. A circus entertains with unique sights and sounds, the daring and unbelievable feats[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 just a few of the many forms of comedy which have developed since early days of jesters and traveling minstrels.[6]
[edit] Comics
Comics comprise of a series of text as well as drawn images which convey an entertaining or diverse narrative.[7] Several famous comics revolve around super heroes such as Superman, Batman. Marvel Comics and DC Comics are two well known publishers of comic books. Manga is the Japanese word for comic and print cartoons.
Caricature represents another type of graphical entertainment, though the purposes may vary from merely putting smile on viewers face to raising a social awareness to 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. The entertainment provided may be for the dancer or the viewer of the dance. The dance varies in format from the ballet, cancan, charleston, Highland fling, folk dance, sun dance, modern dance or polka to name a few.[9]
sport are an active thing and thats about it. you get hurt and run around or move around. you are doing a verb
[edit] Reading
Reading comprises the interpretation of written symbols.[10] An author, poet or playwright sets out a literary composition for publication to provide education or diversion for the reader. Paperback or hard cover books, magazines, periodicals, puzzle books, crossword magazines, coloring books all seek to provide diversification for the reader. Fantasy, horror, science fiction, mystery, american literature are a few forms of reading entertainment.
[edit] Games
Games provides relaxation and diversion usually following a rule set for amusement. There are to choose from a variety of solitaire games wherein the game is played by one person solely for their own entertainment, or 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 such as duck, duck, goose, or outdoor games such as lawn bowling. Equipment may be necessary to play the game such as a deck of cards for a variety of card games, or a board and markers for a variety of 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 of melody, harmony and or vocals for artistic, entertainment, ceremonial or religious purposes. Music varies widely by country, composer and performer. A combination of sounds come together ina pleasing and harmonious art form for both the performer, composer and listening audience.[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
[edit] See also
- Leisure
- Osamu Tezuka
- History of Film
- Broadway
- West End
- Philip Astley-father of the modern circus
- Literature
[edit] External links
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ entertainment - Definitions from Dictionary.com. Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. (2007). Retrieved on 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 (2001). cinema- Definitions from Dictionary.com. rOnline Etymology Dictionary. 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.
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