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Entertaiment is a complex field that reflects the complexities of human emotion and intellect, offering everything from escapism to education, catharsis to cerebral engagement. It encompasses a wide range of forms, and a seemingly endless ability to remix itself into new formats and mediums. Bates and Ferri (2010) defines entertainment as an activity understood objectively, that involves communication between text and audience from external stimulus, offers pleasure, requires the existence of an audience and occurs in a passive form.