Cultural industries

Professor of the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) David Hezmondalsh is analyzing changes in cultural industries since the 1980s, and also submits the reader an overview of existing approaches to explain the reasons for these changes. The author considers the disputes on the role of culture and creativity in modern societies, paying special attention to the issues of copyright, cultural policy, the influence of celebrities, etc. It places transformation in cultural industries into a long political, economic and cultural context. In his work, he uses a special critical approach to cultural production, repulsted from political economy, research of culture, sociology and social theory