Alfie Bown Enjoying It - Candy Crush and Capitalism, Zero Books2015.
Academic Field:
Popular culture, Social psychology
Topic:
Hedonism / Capitalism / Mediatic Saturation

This book is a study of enjoyment and of the enjoyment of studying. It asks what enjoyment says about us and what we say about enjoyment, and why. Using a range of ‘case studies’ from Critical Theory to Candy Crush, ‘Gangnam Style’ to Game of Thrones and Football Manager to Hieronymus Bosch, this book argues that we need to rethink our enjoyment.

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