Creative Industries 1st Edition John Hartley by John Hartley 1405101474, 9781405101479 instant download after payment.

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 worldDraws together, in one accessible volume, seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contextsExplores the subjects that have come to define the creative industries – including learning services, knowledge clusters, dot.coms, creative cities, networked incubators, the new media, and the shift from the "culture industries" to the "industries of culture"Features 31 essays by leading international scholars – covering the creative industries of several fields, including book publishing, TV production, urban development, and gamesIncludes substantial editorial introductions by the editor, making this a useful, engaging, and thought-provoking collection of the very best scholarship on modern creative culture.