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The Cultural Industries

By David Hesmondhalgh

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| Paperback | 9780761954538

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"The Cultural Industries is an indispensable guide to the main forces at work in the production of media today. This lucid, careful and sophisticated book orders the entire field, for the US as well as Europe, and at one stroke becomes the state of the art, the standard."

-- Todd GContinue

"The Cultural Industries is an indispensable guide to the main forces at work in the production of media today. This lucid, careful and sophisticated book orders the entire field, for the US as well as Europe, and at one stroke becomes the state of the art, the standard."

-- Todd Gitlin, Columbia University

What are the "cultural industries"? What role do they play in contemporary society? How are they changing?

The Cultural Industries combines a political economy approach with the best aspects of cultural studies, sociology, communication studies and social theory to provide an overview of the key debates surrounding cultural production. The book:

Considers both the entertainment and the information sectors Combines analysis of the contemporary scene with a long-range historical perspective Draws on an range of examples from North America, the UK, Europe and elsewhere

Hesmondhalgh's clearly written, thoroughly argued overview of political-economic, organizational, technological and cultural change represents an important intervention in research on cultural production, but at the same time provides students with an accessible, indispensable introduction to the area.

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  • Quite a well structured theoretical framework, but the topics are too wide and the evidence brought it's too reduced. The part about Internet, even though the book is from 2007, seems today out of date, especially considering the Web 2.0 evolution.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 290 Pages
  • Edition: 1st
  • ISBN-10: 0761954538
  • ISBN-13: 9780761954538
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
  • Pub date: May 24, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1613 mm x 1097 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
  • In other languages: other languages 繁體書
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