David Hesmondhalgh 
The Cultural Industries [PDF ebook] 

An undisputed classic, the 
Fourth Edition of this bestselling media studies text offers an unparalleled analysis of the cultural industries. 



Bringing together a huge range of research, theory and key concepts, David Hesmondhalgh provides an accessible yet critical exploration of cultural production and consumption in the global media landscape. This new edition: 

• Analyses the influence of IT and tech companies like Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook on the cultural industries.


• Discusses the impact of digital technologies on industries such as music, TV, newspapers, books and digital games.


• Explores the effects of digitalisation on culture, discussing critical issues like participation, power, commercialism, surveillance, and labour.


• Examines the changing conceptions of audiences, and the increasing influence of market research, audience tracking and advertising.

As one of the most read, most studied and most cited books in the field, this Fourth Edition is an essential resource for students and researchers of media and communication studies, the cultural and creative industries, cultural studies and the sociology of the media.

Tabella dei contenuti

PART ONE: INTRODUCING THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES

Chapter 1 Change and Continuity, Power and Creativity

Chapter 2 The Cultural Industries Approach: Distinctive Features of Culture-Producing Businesses

PART TWO: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS

Chapter 3 Theories of Culture, Theories of Cultural Production

Chapter 4 Cultural Industries in the Twentieth Century: The Key Features

Chapter 5 Why the Cultural Industries Began to Change in the 1980s

PART THREE: POLICY CHANGE

Chapter 6 Policy Change in Media and Telecommunications: Marketisation and Copyright

Chapter 7 Cultural Policy: Creative Cities, Creative Industries, Creative Economies

PART FOUR: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES, 1990-2017

Chapter 8 Ownership (1): Concentration, Conglomeration and Corporate Power, 1980-2010

Chapter 9 Ownership (2): Concentration, Conglomeration and Corporate Power, 2010 onwards

Chapter 10 How the Claims of Digital Optimists were Contradicted by the Rise of Digital Culture

Chapter 11 The Effects of Digital Networks on Individual Industries

Chapter 12 Creativity, Commerce and Organisation

Chapter 13 Working Conditions and Inequalities in the Cultural Industries

Chapter 14 Internationalisation: Neither Globalisation nor Cultural Imperialism

Chapter 15 Texts: Diversity, Quality and Social Justice

Chapter 16 Conclusions: A New Era in Cultural Production?

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Circa l’autore

David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media, Music and Culture in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Cultural Industries (SAGE, 2019); Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (Palgrave, 2015, co-written with Kate Oakley, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett); Why Music Matters (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013); and Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (Routledge, 2011, co-written with Sarah Baker). He is also editor or co-editor of eight other books or special journal issues on media, music and culture, including a special issue of Popular Communication (co-edited with Anamik Saha) on Race and Cultural Production; The Media and Social Theory (Routledge, co-edited with Jason Toynbee, 2008) and Media and Society, 6th edition (Bloomsbury, co-edited with James Curran, 2019). He was born and raised in Accrington, Lancashire, did his first degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and received his Ph D from Goldsmiths University of London in 1996. He lives in Yorkshire with his partner, the philosopher Helen Steward, and they have two adult children, Rosa and Joe.