Outline of entertainment
The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to entertainment and the entertainment industry:
Entertainment is any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time, and may also provide fun, enjoyment and laughter. People may create their own entertainment, such as when they spontaneously invent a game; participate actively in an activity they find entertaining, such as when they play sport as a hobby; or consume an entertainment product passively, such as when they attend a performance.
The entertainment industry (informally known as show business or show biz) is part of the tertiary sector of the economy and includes a large number of sub-industries devoted to entertainment. However, the term is often used in the mass media to describe the mass media companies that control the distribution and manufacture of mass media entertainment. In the popular parlance, the term show biz in particular connotes the commercially popular performing arts, especially musical theatre, vaudeville, comedy, film, and music. It applies to every aspect of entertainment including cinema, television, radio, theatre and music.
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Types of entertainment
Exhibition entertainment
- Amusement parks
- Art exhibits
- Fairs
- Museums
- Theme parks
- Trade shows
- Travelling exhibition
- Wax museums
Live entertainment
- Busking
- Street theatre
- Circus
- Concerts
- Dance
- Fireworks
- Magic
- Musical theatre
- Nightclubs
- Discotheques
- Operas
- Parades
- Performance art
- Puppet shows
- Spectator sports
- Stand-up comedy
- Comedy clubs
- Porn
- Strip clubs
- Theatre
- Drama
- Variety show
- Vaudeville
- Video art
Mass media entertainment industry
- Live entertainment
- Film
- Broadcasting
- Music industry
- New media
- Fashion industry
- Theme parks
- Discotheques
- Video games
Electronic entertainment
Music industry
History of entertainment
Entertainment by historical period
History by entertainment type
History of exhibition entertainment
- History of amusement parks
- History of art exhibitions
- History of fairs
- History of museums
- History of theme parks
- History of trade shows
- History of wax museums
History of live entertainment
- History of busking
- History of the circus
- History of comedy
- History of comedy clubs
- History of concerts
- History of dance
- History of fireworks
- History of musical theatre
- History of nightclubs
- History of discotheques
- History of opera
- History of parades
- History of performance art
- History of plays
- History of magic
- History of sports
- History of striptease
- History of lap dancing
- History of strip clubs
- History of theatre
- History of variety shows
- History of vaudeville
History of mass media entertainment
- History of film
- History of literature
- History of magazines
- History of the music industry
- History of new media
- History of radio
- History of radio programming
- History of sound recording
- History of television
- History of television programs
- History of video games
Entertainment law
General concepts
- Acrobatics
- Aerial acts
- Animal training
- Applause
- Beauty pageant
- Celebrity
- Chinese yo-yo
- Circus
- Circus skills
- Clown
- Comedian
- Comedy
- Contact juggling
- Contemporary circus
- Contortion
- Corde lisse
- Cyr wheel
- Devil sticks
- Diabolo
- Equilibristics
- Fire breathing
- Fire eating
- Geisha
- German wheel
- Hand-to-hand balancing
- Hula hoop
- Human cannonball
- Humor
- Horse riding
- Internet humor
- Ice skating
- Impalement arts
- Juggling
- Knife throwing
- List of beauty contests
- List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
- Magic
- Mime
- New media
- Old time radio
- Performing arts
- Plate spinning
- Radio
- Radio programming
- Rock opera
- Rodeo clown
- Roller skating
- Sex industry
- Show business
- Showstopper
- Sideshow
- Spanish web
- Stiltwalking
- Sword swallowing
- Show jumping
- Teen idol
- Tightrope walking
- Trapeze
- Unicycle
- Ventriloquism
Notable entertainers
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- Lists of entertainers
- Lists of actors
- List of film and television directors
- List of theatre directors
- List of film score composers
- List of comedians
- List of clowns
- List of sportspeople
- List of magicians
- List of circuses and circus owners
- Lists of musicians
- List of professional wrestlers
See also
- Drama
- Performance
- Television
- Theatre
- Outline of dance
- Outline of film
- Outline of literature
- Outline of music
- Outline of sports
- Outline of theatre
- Media of New York City
- List of movie-related topics
- Gambling
- Hollywood
References
External links
- DMOZ Open Directory Project - listing for Entertainment
