tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34814441.post720818894236953925..comments2023-09-11T03:56:17.551-07:00Comments on Entertainment Planet: Entertainment & Entertainmentnous: Exploring Concepts, to Define an IndustryMoss Travel TVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09418640432762855271noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34814441.post-35420392392773510442008-01-05T09:12:00.000-08:002008-01-05T09:12:00.000-08:00Hello, and thank you for your comment, it’s taken ...Hello, and thank you for your comment, it’s taken ten months to get one but at last somebody has taken an interest in a subject that is very close to my heart, and a subject which I am keen to explore and discuss further. Your comment style would suggest to me that you are used to writing critiques, do I take it that you are an academic or a reviewer? With regards to the writing style of my blog, please be aware that it is my personal blog, which I do write in a chatty open style (including punctuation) think of it as my thought-pad. I certainly do not profess to be the world’s leading expert on entertainment or anything else, but I do have an opinion.<BR/><BR/>It is interesting that you take the view that my definition of entertainment is too narrow, firstly as you correctly identify, I am looking at the subject from an industry perspective, as in what should be and what shouldn’t be included in the entertainment industry. The reason I am doing this, is that the entertainment industry is all too often considered to be a part of a larger entity and lacking identity. Leisure, tourism and the media are often championed as being the ‘parent’ of the entertainment industry. I do want to champion the entertainment industry, and give it an identity in it’s own right as I believe it rightly deserves to be seen as something which is much more than being leisure, tourism or media driven. <BR/><BR/>Many of the published ‘experts’ seem to have an even narrower view of what constitutes entertainment than what I do, my view does take a broader perspective – believe me. Entertainment seems all too often to be deemed as being either performing arts, or ‘light’ entertainment, which is something I absolutely disagree with, as may you. But a line does need to be drawn somewhere as to exactly what is and what isn’t entertainment, again from my point, an industry perspective. If you think of entertainment as an umbrella term, what should it constitute? What are their common traits? What are the sectors that it should include? <BR/><BR/>I don’t think I could convince many people that hospitality should be a part of the entertainment industry, and my example of eating a Pot noodle, albeit crude was designed to highlight the difference between participating in an entertainment activity, and another kind of activity. May I ask you, how you would feel a distinction should be made? Have a look in any dictionary at what entertainment is – do you feel that it gives a broad enough definition?<BR/><BR/>The point that you make ‘I think it is idiotic to assert that something has to primarily attempt to be entertaining to then be seen as entertainment’ is exactly what I think also, so either you have misinterpreted what I have said, or I have not expressed myself clearly enough. Please have a look at my further post on a phenomenon that I refer to as naturtainment - http://entplanet.blogspot.com/2007/04/naturtainment.html<BR/><BR/>I would really like the opportunity to discuss this further with you, if you are willing my email address is s.moss@leedsmet.ac.uk .<BR/><BR/>Kind Regards<BR/><BR/>Stuart.Moss Travel TVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09418640432762855271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34814441.post-13630309780725954502008-01-05T06:47:00.000-08:002008-01-05T06:47:00.000-08:00I wish to know how you can so certain in your opin...I wish to know how you can so certain in your opinion that a shower cannot be entertainment, making and consuming a Pot Noodle is not entertainment and chewing gum isn't entertainment. You aren't very well justifying these arguments, in one case using an explanation mark as if to joke at the very prospect of such a thing possibly being defined as being entertainment, when I think any one of those things could entertain someone. You are obviously only willing to be entertained by something which you are used to calling entertainment, without considering that any of these other things could very well be entertainment. Your definition if far too narrow and I think it is idiotic to assert that something has to primarily attempt to be entertaining to then be seen as entertainment. Many things which primarily serve another purpose or none at all such as the eclipse you speak of can still be entertaining to someone and therefore be entertainment to that person, how else can you define something which is entertaining other than as entertainment? Your argument seeks only to justify the glorification of the entertainment industry by denying that things from outside of it can also be entertainment.ijmultilinearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12392811057596670435noreply@blogger.com