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Description for Creative Industries
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Hartley, John. Num Pages: 432 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 776.
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.
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.
- Chronicles the way mass culture is produced, packaged and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world
- Draws together, in one accessible volume, seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts
- Explores the subjects that have come to define the creative industries – including ... Read more
- Features 31 essays by leading international scholars – covering the creative industries of several fields, including book publishing, TV production, urban development, and games
- Includes substantial editorial introductions by the editor, making this a useful, engaging, and thought-provoking collection of the very best scholarship on modern creative culture.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
434
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405101479
SKU
V9781405101479
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Hartley
John Hartley is Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is the author of numerous books in the field, including A Short History of Cultural Studies (2003), Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts (2002), Uses of Television (1999), and Popular Reality: Journalism, Modernity, Popular Culture (1996). He is editor of the International Journal ... Read more
Reviews for Creative Industries
“John Hartley has put together a remarkably rich and critical volume which discusses creativity creatively, making sense of contemporary dilemmas facing cultural producers and receivers.” Stephen Coleman, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford “An innovative look at creative innovation in contemporary information societies and media cultures. These provocative, and often surprising, essays make us ... Read more