In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music--it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James Luker explores that odd…
Studio Studies is an agenda setting volume that presents a set of empirical case studies that explore and examine the studio as a key setting for aesthetic and material production. As such, Studio Studies responds to three contemporary concerns in social and cultural thought: fi…
Studio Studies is an agenda setting volume that presents a set of empirical case studies that explore and examine the studio as a key setting for aesthetic and material production. As such, Studio Studies responds to three contemporary concerns in social and cultural thought: fi…
What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more 'creative' than those in other sectors? This book explores these issues in the creative industries, using a combination of original research and a synthesis of existing studies.
What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more 'creative' than those in other sectors? This book explores these issues in the creative industries, using a combination of original research and a synthesis of existing studies.
What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more 'creative' than those in other sectors? This book explores these issues in the creative industries, using a combination of original research and a synthesis of existing studies.
"This book is the first to present an organized study of the key concepts that underlie and motivate the field of creative industries. Written by a world-leading team of experts, it presents readers with compact accounts of the history of terms, the debates and tensions associat…
"In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against and eradicated. Others see it as unavoidable, and table…
"Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity. In the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were 'blue ants under the red flag, ' dressing identically and even marching in an identical fashion. When the Cultura…
An investigation of the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles based film and video production workers.
