Media Entertainment

This collection of essays covers all essential aspects of media entertainment, written in a non-technical style for appeal to scholars in communication and psychology as well as to students at mid to advanced levels of study.

"Zillmann and Vorderer offer a remarkable collection of articles exploring the state of empirical knowledge about contemporary popular media....What makes this book very appealing is not only the breadth of the coverage of all forms of media entertainment but also its depth of data and its application to many Western cultures....A must for all media collections because of its thoroughness and its careful examination and interpretation of pertinent research data."
—CHOICE

"Dolf Zillmann and Peter Vorderer effectively collaborate to compile fourteen outstanding, informative, and highly recommended essays by experts in the field....Enhanced with both an author index and a subject index, Media Entertainment is invaluable, informative reading for students of mass media and the popular culture."
—The Midwest Book Review