Digital Entertaiment

Entertaiment is a word that has become a household term thanks to the digital revolution and its effect on business models in the music, film and record industries. While business is down, consumers have taken matters into their own hands to find entertainment – downloading independent music from sites such as eBay and Craigslist, exchanging songs with friends on their iPods and creating their own videos. The familiar themes of entertainment have the capacity to transcend media – the story of Scheherazade, for example, has inspired Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel and Szymanowski to create orchestral works, Pasolini’s film version and an innovative video game.