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The meaning of pleasure and the pleasure of meaning: towards a definition of pleasure in reception analysis
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | O'connor, Barbara Klaus, Elisabeth |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Abstract | Within the debates' on popular culture pleasure has been consistently linked to mass culture and popular entertainment, to fiction, escapism and emotion. But is pleasure really something that only fictional productions can convey? Is the reception of nonfictional programs indeed ruled by categories such as rationality, respousibihty, civility, th,at seem so far apart from mass entertainment and mere pleasure? 'Can there be genre~ in starker contrast than soaps and news? We will probe into the seeming oppositions of popular and public, of fiction and nonfiction, of soap and news, of pleasure and ideology in our attempt to clarify the scope of the category pleasure.. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://doras.dcu.ie/14970/1/meaning-of-pleasure.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
