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8/2/24, 5:13 AMTH-210: Comprehensive Exam: Avant Garde
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- Popular entertainments (lower income), (Traditionally) Circus/Animal shows/carnivals
- Popular diversions today: streaming services
- Bourgeois (middle income), Mainstream Narrative Theatre
3 Categories of Diversions (examples) - Most common bourgeois diversion is professional sports
- Elitist entertainments (upper income), Experimental/Avant Garde Theatre
- Requires special knowledge or education
- Most important- requires context
Elitist diversions require more context and knowledge because they are more complex
Context
with hidden meanings
National Average: $250 a month, $3,000 annually
Discretionary $ & %
Average expenditure in USA on diversions: 5%
- Aristotle's Classical model: the greatest pleasure comes in contemplation (doing
Two Models of Diversions nothing)
- Contemporary model: free time is spent doing lots of things
- Australia has highest spending on leisure while India has lowest spending on leisure
Expenditures for Recreation Globally
- US spends a lot on healthcare
Freud - Psychobiology For most people, maximal pleasure lies somewhere between familiarity and novelty
- More novelty higher sensation / familiarity is lew sensation
Entertainment & Novelty
- Sensation seekers push the boundaries of "dark entertainments"
- high sensation seekers (high novelty) to low sensation seekers (low novelty)
- "High sensation seekers can predict everything from theme park rides to films to drug
High vs. Low Sensation Seekers
use to the next car someone will buy"
- high targeted by media
Media Sensation Seekers The media tends to target high sensation seekers
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