Business as usual, The UK and Cultural Industries as industrial policy

O'Brien, David. 2015. Business as usual, The UK and Cultural Industries as industrial policy. In: Kate Oakley and Justin O'Connor, eds. Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415706209 [Book Section]

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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,

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Book Section

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Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (ICCE)

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June 2015Published

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12443

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04 Aug 2015 10:51

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29 Jul 2016 10:43

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https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/12443

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