| Creative Industries Contributor(s): Hartley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1405101474 ISBN-13: 9781405101479 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $150.43 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: Bringing together ground-breaking essays from across the disciplinary spectrum, "Creative Industries "chronicles how culture is produced, packaged, and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world. This is the first systematic analysis of the challenge of the creative industries in a world where innovation and risk are requirements for both economic and cultural enterprise, where knowledge and ideas drive wealth creation and social modernization, and where globalization and new technologies are the material of everyday life and experience. Thirty essays and new contextualizing chapters by leading international scholars cover several domains, including multimedia, publishing, TV production, urban development, and games. Each of the six sections is edited by a specialist, making this a useful, engaging, and thought-provoking collection of the very best scholarship on modern creative culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Civilization - Business & Economics | Industries - General |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 2004016925 |
| Physical Information: 1.14" H x 6.66" W x 9.08" (1.72 lbs) 434 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Creative Industries is a daring collection of essays that charts the noisy revolution that is transforming the production, consumption, and understanding of culture in the all-wired era. It brings together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts to demonstrate that content still drives a value-neutral, knowledge economy.
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