The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries

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Synopsis

The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries is collection of contemporary scholarship on the cultural industries and seeks to re-assert the importance of cultural production and consumption against the purely economic imperatives of the ‘creative industries’.

Across 43 chapters drawn from a wide range of geographic and disciplinary perspectives, this comprehensive volume offers a critical and empirically-informed examination of the contemporary cultural industries.

A range of cultural industries are explored, from videogames to art galleries, all the time focussing on the culture that is being produced and its wider symbolic and socio-cultural meaning. Individual chapters consider their industrial structure, the policy that governs them, their geography, the labour that produces them, and the meaning they offer to consumers and participants.

The collection also explores the historical dimension of cultural industry debates providing context for new readers, as well as critical orientation for those more familiar with the subject. Questions of industry structure, labour, place, international development, consumption and regulation are all explored in terms of their historical trajectory and potential future direction.

By assessing the current challenges facing the cultural industries this collection of contemporary scholarship provides students and researchers with an essential guide to key ideas, issues, concepts and debates in the field.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
Author:
Kate Oakley, Justin O’Connor
ISBN:
9781317533979
Related ISBNs:
9780415706209, 9781138391871, 9781315725437
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
576
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2022-04-27
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2015
Copyright by:
Kate Oakley and Justin O 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Art and Architecture, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Social Studies