Journal Article Entertainment as Pleasurable and Meaningful: Identifying Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motivations for Entertainment Consumption Get access Mary Beth Oliver, Mary Beth Oliver 1Department of Film/Video & Media Studies, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Arthur A. Raney Arthur A. Raney 2School of Communication, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2664, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 61, Issue 5, 1 October 2011, Pages 984–1004, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01585.x Published: 03 October 2011