Outline of entertainment

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to 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 many 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, fun, and music. It applies to every aspect of entertainment including cinema, television, radio, theatre, and music.

Types of entertainment

Exhibition entertainment

Amusement parks
Art exhibits
Fairs
Festivals
Museums
Trade shows
Traveling carnivals
Travelling exhibition
Vivariums
- Aquariums
Water parks
Wax museums
Zoos

Live entertainment

Air shows
Awards ceremony
Banquet
Burlesque
- American burlesque
- Neo-Burlesque
- Victorian burlesque
Cabaret
Circus
- Contemporary circus
Comedy clubs
Concerts
- Concert residencies
- Concert tours
Ceremony
Dance
Discotheques
Drag shows
Drama
Escape Rooms
Fireworks
Fashion shows
Ice shows
Improvisational theatre
Magic
Minstrel shows
Music festivals
Music hall
Musical theatre
Nightclubs
Operas
Parades
Parties
Performance art
Performing arts
- Marching arts
  - Color guard
  - Drum and bugle corps
  - Indoor percussion ensemble
  - Marching band
  - Pep band
  - Winter guard
Professional wrestling/Sports entertainment
Puppet shows
Raves
Revues
Sideshows
Spectator sports
Stand-up comedy
Street theatre
Strip clubs
Symphonies
Theatre
Variety show
Vaudeville
Ventriloquism
Video art
Wild West shows

Mass media entertainment industry

Live entertainment
- Musical theatre
- Plays
- Performance art
- Comedy
- Drama
- Sports
Film
- Film studios
- Movie theaters / cinemas
- Film score
- Film production
- Acting
- Pornography
Broadcasting
- Television
- Television studio
  - Television programs
    - Reality television
- Radio
  - Radio programs
  - Podcast
Animation
- Animation studio
Music industry
- Recording studio
- Composers and songwriters
- Singers and musicians
- Choirs
- Orchestras
- Concert bands
- Karaokes
- Concert hall
News media
- Web television
- News articles
Fashion industry
- Photographic studio
- Modeling
Literature

Digital Entertainment Industry

Social media
- Online video platform
Digital music

Electronic entertainment

SMS content
Video game industry
- Video games
Toys

History of entertainment

Entertainment by historical period

Entertainment in the 16th century
Entertainment during the Great Depression

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 animation
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

Entertainment law
- Copyright Term Extension Act

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

List of circuses and circus owners
List of clowns
List of comedians
List of film and television directors
List of film score composers
List of magicians
List of professional wrestlers
List of theatre directors
Lists of actors
Lists of musicians
Lists of sportspeople
List of entertainment industry dynasties

External links

DMOZ Open Directory Project - listing for Entertainment

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