John Hartley, Jason Potts, Stuart Cunningham

Gebundenes Buch

Key Concepts in Creative Industries

Beschreibung

"This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work." - Gauti Sigthorsson, Greenwich University "There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers in the field. This book is a clear, comprehensive and accessible tool-kit of ideas, concepts, questions and discussions which will be invaluable to students and practitioners alike. Key Concepts in Creative Industries is set to become the corner stone of an expanding and exciting field of study" - Chris Barker, University of Wollongong Creativity is an attribute of individual people, but also a feature of organizations like firms, cultural institutions and social networks. In the knowledge economy of today, creativity is of increasing value, for developing, emergent and advanced countries, and for competing cities. 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 associated with their usage, and examples of how they apply to the creative industries around the world. Crisp and relevant, this is an invaluable text for students of the creative industries across a range of disciplines, especially media, communication, economics, sociology, creative and performing arts and regional studies.

Autor

Born in Bolton, Lancashire, in the early 1970s, John is a father of three, long-suffering supporter of Bolton Wanderers and Chorley FC, an enthusiastic drinker of tea, and a school leader in special education. John's musical memoir 'Capturing the Wry' was first published by i40Publishing in 2018 and his authorised biography of the indie band BOB is published by i40Publishing in February 2023. He has written extensively for the Neo-Tokyo online magazine, Dukla Prague Away Kit blog, Toppermost and Everything Indie Over 40 websites. John's favourite authors are Robert Westall, Magnus Mills, Roddy Doyle, Stan Barstow and Peter Tinniswood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781446202883
• ISBN-10: 1446202887
• Artikelnr.: 37316280

Rezensionen

This is an authoritative overview of a rapidly developing area of study and research. The book offers much to both those familiar with work on the creative industries and those for whom the concept is an entirely new object of study. John Storey