"Mass entertainment" refers to forms of entertainment that are designed and produced for a wide audience, often aimed at satisfying the general public's interests and preferences. It includes movies, TV shows, music, books, and other forms of media that are accessible to and enjoyed by a large number of people.
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Over the last decade political spin and aggressive commentary have become a major form
of mass entertainment.
Can you think of another issue that might benefit from being portrayed more often and accurately
in mass entertainment?
This is not so much a movie meant
for mass entertainment as it is writer / director Wayne Kramer's portfolio submission to Jerry Bruckheimer in the hopes that he will be considered along with Michael Bay, Dominic Sena, and Tony Scott for Bruckheimer's next big multi-million-dollar action extravaganza.
The work of Irish artist Jesse Jones seeks out the false starts and forgotten dreams of the early avant - garde, tracing the appropriation of radical aesthetics
by mass entertainment.
Trump, in stark contrast, enlivens our baser passions by
blending mass entertainment and national politics into a discontented froth, promising to redress our ills through belligerent action.
As the major studios have increasingly focused on
predictable mass entertainment formulas, quality and imagination have migrated to what could be called Sundance films: Lower budget, innovative projects fueled by the love of their makers, and sometimes by the determination of actors trying to break out of assembly - line fodder.
From his earliest work, the director has been building toward this kind of thought - provoking mass entertainment
I want criticism that appreciates cinema aesthetically; recognising it as a form of
mass entertainment with enormous cultural impact.
All around us the world of
mass entertainment grows more demanding and sophisticated, and our brains happily gravitate to that newfound complexity.»
Leslie Morgenstein, president of Alloy Entertainment, said: «One of our strengths is working with talented authors to create and develop properties that have
mass entertainment appeal.
This opening plenary session explores
how mass entertainment and the games we play can be powerful vehicles to promote sustainability and take it mainstream.
While he and Koons both aim
for mass entertainment, it took coaxing to introduce him to a major New York gallery.
Meanwhile,
mass entertainment has gone to extremes, replacing hard bodies with steel robots so that boxing can be even more brutal.
It was
mass entertainment, sure, the kind of popcorn movie that's filled with things - blowed - up - real - good set pieces and speeches about the apocalypse being cancelled.
Exciting, nerdy in all the right ways, and just a top notch adventure, it's
mass entertainment that values the intelligence of the masses.
It started in Hollywood in the temples of
mass entertainment.
As neither
mass entertainment nor a low - budget risk, Chelsea may stand to art's quieter and more adventurous pursuits much as Bjork does to indie.
Does art still have a little fight left in it, beyond big business and
mass entertainment?
In devoting one of its large sixth - floor galleries to the permanent collection, it means to address critics who see everything it does as
mass entertainment or a fashion show.
They know that art matters to New York's vitality, and it can aspire to
mass entertainment, but only by redefining entertainment, art, and New York alike.
As art comes closer to
mass entertainment, it inherits big effects and fewer surprises.
Without that, art becomes just a dreadfully expensive variety of
mass entertainment.
In part, too, art has become closer to
mass entertainment than someone like Serra or Frank Stella could ever accept.
Atherton has used the art gallery as «theatre» to question art and the artist «performer» relative to the wider cultural influences of
mass entertainment, including the performer in vaudeville or stand - up comedy.
The joy of pop as an art aesthetic is to take the stuff around us, the unspecial stuff of commodities and
mass entertainment, and mark it out as Art.
Meteor collisions, alien invasions, super volcanoes, nuclear winter, and global warming all provide great material for
mass entertainment and breathless news reporting.