Editing Entertainment! (section)

==Composition==
''Entertainment!'' has been recognised as a seminal [[post-punk]] album,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/best-post-punk-albums-5-2495402671.html?rebelltitem=10 |title=The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever: Part 5, Joy Division to Gang of Four |website=[[PopMatters]] |date=10 April 2020 |access-date=7 June 2020 |last=Fitzgerald |first=Colin}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-50-best-post-punk-albums/#5-gang-of-four-%E2%80%93-entertainment- |title=The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums |website=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]] |date=13 July 2016 |access-date=7 June 2020 |last=Ham |first=Robert |display-authors=etal}}</ref> and an example of [[dance-punk]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/all-that-sass-the-albums-that-define-the-00s-dance-pu-1798248825 |title=All that sass: The albums that define the '00s dance-punk era |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=22 June 2016 |access-date=7 June 2020 |last=Warwick |first=Kevin}}</ref> [[art punk]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.slugmag.com/lifestyle/reviews/book-reviews/book-reviews-39/ |title=Book Reviews |website=[[SLUG Magazine]] |date=31 August 2014 |access-date=7 June 2020}}</ref> and [[funk-punk]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/photos/the-500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-200-101-1426258|title=The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 200-101|last=Barker|first=Emily|date=25 October 2013|website=[[NME]]|access-date=17 October 2024}}</ref> The album was co-produced by [[Jon King]] and [[Andy Gill]] along with Rob Warr, the band's manager at the time. King's lyrics were heavily influenced by [[Situationist International|Situationism]], the work of philosophers [[Michel Foucault]] and [[Jacques Lacan]],<ref name=":0" /> feminism, and [[Marx's theory of alienation]]; a unifying notion is that "the personal is political". Topics include [[commodification]] ("Natural's Not in It", "Return the Gift"), proletarian life ("At Home He's a Tourist"), [[great man theory]] ("Not Great Men"), the treatment of [[Special Category Status]] prisoners at [[HM Prison Maze|Long Kesh]] during [[The Troubles]] ("Ether"), and the impact of media reporting on acts of terrorism and [[Maoism|Maoist]] [[guerrilla warfare]] in Latin America ("5.45"). A number of songs apply these themes to subvert love song tropes, challenging traditional concepts of love ("Anthrax", "Contract") and sex ("Damaged Goods", "I Found That Essence Rare"). In his 2014 [[monograph]] on the album, [[Kevin Dettmar|Kevin J. H. Dettmar]] likens the album to [[James Joyce]]'s [[Ulysses (novel)|''Ulysses'']], saying: "both are concerned with the importance of narrative, of storytelling, as a mode of experiencing the world... that the stories we tell ourselves about "the way things are"—a body of stories that in another context we might call [[ideology]]—profoundly shape our experiences of the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gang-of-fours-entertainment-9781623560652/ |title=Gang of Four's Entertainment! |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |access-date=28 October 2020}}</ref>