TY - CHAP AB - We all do it. We label persons or groups as chic, funky, chauvinist, cool, Uncle Tom, nerdy, liberated, Baby Boomers, and more. Political and religious leaders similarly make moral statements, for instance by applying Biblical characters’ names to contemporaries like Bill Clinton or Saddam Hussein – as Satanical or a Good Samaritan. Muslims analogously invoke the Koran. VL - 9 SN - 978-0-76231-060-9, 978-1-84950-240-5/1479-3520 DO - 10.1016/S1479-3520(03)09001-9 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3520(03)09001-9 AU - Nichols Clark Terry ED - Terry Nichols Clark PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - 1. INTRODUCTION: TAKING ENTERTAINMENT SERIOUSLY T2 - The City as an Entertainment Machine T3 - Research in Urban Policy PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 1 EP - 17 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -