Entertainment is a ubiquitous phenomenon that has been transformed extensively by science and technology. To some extent that transformation has ethical dimensions that merit more consideration than they usually receive. There is evidence that human...

Outer space is big business for the entertainment world. The earliest record of a work of science fiction, written to fuel the imagination and entertain the public, was the Greek satirist Lucian's Vera historia (True history), penned around C.E....

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...

IDT, the Newark telecom company that has spent three years building a movie-production and video-distribution division, last week changed course and sold IDT Entertainment to Liberty Media of Englewood, CoIo. Liberty Media is making the acquisition in exchange for its existing interests in IDT...

If you're not baking cookies for the kids at Christmas, you may be entertaining on a larger scale. And, naturally, there are many authors hoping to help you fill this void. This is a genre that often attracts celebrities, but in the case...

I have some friends who entertain at the drop of a hat. (“Hey, I found some fresh morels at the market today and I bought way too many – are you free for dinner tonight?”) Frankly, it always takes a great deal more than loose...

BBC America's Torchwood returns for season two with characters that are neither gay, straight or bisexual. The sci-fi Doctor Who spin-off set in a techno-future prefers to call its characters omnisexual. While season one left gay fans with little to cheer about, this year begins...

As American life and culture evolved during the twentieth century, the makers of American movies and television shows changed their subjects and how they are portrayed. By examining the portrayal of women's roles, fashion and clothing, and the home in the films "Way Down East," "The Grapes of Wrath," and "The Salt of the Earth," as well as the television show "Leave it to Beaver," one can see deeper, symbolic, and more purposeful meanings behind everyday images.

Examines the effect of popular entertainments on society and considers if it poisons the masses. Maintains that entertainment is a form of art.

While we look to entertainment as a source of fun and leisure, it is actually a source of escape that serves to ruin our society. Entertainment brainwashes our youth into believing in an imaginary world, and it prevents them from obtaining the knowledge of their predecessors. And entertainment is ruining our quality of life, leaving our mental capacities wide open to useless, garbage material.