While technology changes the availability, cost and variety of entertainment products, the fundamental forms that make up entertainment remain relatively stable. The story of Scheherazade, for example, from the Persian professional storytelling tradition has inspired retellings as orchestral works by composers like Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel; film directors such as Pasolini and others; and innovative video games.
This article develops academically accepted, systematically built and area-oriented definitions for Entertainment through multidisciplinary research proceedings. These definitions will support solid entertainment academic discussions and allow for clearer and wider entertainment materializations.