Articles
Entertaiment is audience-centered commercial culture that keeps individuals amused, engaged, and diverted. Its industrialized nature has given rise to a vast and diverse industry that influences culture at large and provides jobs for many people. It is an enduring genre with the ability to cross different media and a seemingly infinite potential for creative remix. This collection highlights familiar forms of entertainment, such as movies, television, music, books, art, and games, that have the capacity to transform through time and space, demonstrating how they can retain their meaning even as the medium changes.
Word History
The English word entertainment comes from the Medieval Latin intertenere, derived from the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the suffix tenere, meaning to hold or stretch. Its Indo-European root is ten, which also means to maintain or keep up with.