mass entertainment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmassandentertainment
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mass
adjective[before noun]
uk/mæs/us/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a ...
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entertainment
noun[C or U]
uk/en.təˈteɪn.mənt/us/en.t̬ɚˈteɪn.mənt/
shows, films, television, or other performances or activities that entertain people, or a performance of ...
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(Definition ofmassandentertainmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But now thatmassentertainmenthad arrived, these ideas were invoked as a particular response to the effects of the market.
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But this mattered little for the study ofmassentertainment.
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Studies ofmassentertainmentconducted by metropolitan and central government institutions are evidence of this new concern about its effects on morality.
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Some critics' experience of this opera could most successfully - or perhaps only - be described in the language of their experience ofmassentertainment.
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In contexts where religious bodies depend upon private support, religions will compete for people's support within larger arenas including such disparate rivals as 'massentertainment, sports teams, political parties'.
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Cheaply produced popular literature provided newmassentertainment.
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That is not the same as amassentertainmentchannel.
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If entertainment considerations dominate, they will bemassentertainmentconsiderations and it will not matter whether there are 3, 23 or 103 channels.
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The thing that we are worried about is that we are not going to get real variety, butmassentertainmentprogrammes.
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It is no good being upstage about these new figures which arise from the world ofmassentertainment, or trying to belittle them.
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It is a way that applies to all other forms ofmassentertainment—be it cinemas, theatres, books or sport.
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Until recently, the tendency was even to regard the film not so much as an art as a means ofmassentertainment.
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They have become places ofmassentertainment, and the people who live in surrounding areas are now much worse off.
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It is only comparatively recently that professional football has become aware that it is in competition with other forms ofmassentertainmentand, in comparison, is losing out pretty badly.
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The globalmassentertainmentof television creates a false world, a virtual world, where every kind of business or trade flourishes and the importance of democracy is diminished.
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In past commercialmassentertainmentnovels the dark side remittance man has been popularized.
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His concept, however, did not translate well intomassentertainment.
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Working people had little money to spend and tub-thumping public speakers pushing their social or political agendas provided a form ofmassentertainment.
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In the 1970s, when winter sports becomemassentertainment, more ski resorts were built in two hamlets.
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