The political economy of popular culture -- Popular culture and the East Asian region -- Japan's popular culture powerhouse -- The creation of a regional market -- Japan's regional model -- Conclusion: Japanese popular culture and the making of East Asia.
What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more 'creative' than those in other sectors? To answer these questions, this book explores the creative industries, using a combination of original research and a synthesis of existing studies. Through its close analysis of ke…
The cultural industries are an area of continued international debate. This edited volume brings together original contributions to examine the experiences and realities of working within a number of creative sectors and address how higher education can both enable students to p…
The cultural industries are an area of continued international debate. This edited volume brings together original contributions to examine the experiences and realities of working within a number of creative sectors and address how higher education can both enable students to p…
'The Routledge companion to the cultural industries' is a collection of contemporary scholarship that 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 wi…
The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries is collection of contemporary scholarship that 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 r…
The second half of the 20th century was a period which saw unprecedented social, technological and economic changes. These upheavals are reflected in the development of literature, music and cinema in the post-war period. From Kingsley Amis to Salman Rushdie, this text should be…
One of the most exciting developments from the world of ideas in decades, presented with panache by two frighteningly brilliant, endearingly unpretentious, and endlessly creative young scientists."--Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature Our society has gone fr…
Mass culture theory, studying mass culture and the Frankfurt School were, in part, the antecedent of media studies, cultural studies, critical theory and bits of sociology. This book revisits the work of leading critical theorists, explores and explains their work and highlights…
"This is a welcome critical corrective to complacent mainstream accounts of the media's cultural impact"--Prof. Slavoj Zizek, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. "A powerful and highly engaging re-assessment of p…
On the Internet, "information wants to be free". This memorable phrase shaped the online business model, but it is now driving the media companies on whom the digital industry feeds out of business. In Free Ride, Robert Levine narrates an epic tale of value destruction and chart…
The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries is a reference text that brings together many of the world's leading scholars in the application of creativity in economics, business and management, law, policy studies, organization studies and psychology. While creative industries re…
The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries is a reference text that brings together many of the world's leading scholars in the application of creativity in economics, business and management, law, policy studies, organization studies and psychology. While creative industries re…
The creative industries are an important part of modern economies, recognised increasingly by governments, firms and the general public as sources of beauty and expression as well as financial value and employment. Scholars have produced growing creative industries research, but…
The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries is a reference work, bringing together many of the world's leading scholars in the application of creativity in economics, business and management, law, policy studies, organization studies and psychology.
