1st Edition

Cultural Politics of the Creative Industries

By Phil Graham Copyright 2025
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents the creative industries as a suite of practices intimately connected to political, economic, and cultural power. Seeking to illuminate the creative industries through critical cultural analysis it shows the extent to which creative labour shapes our shared cultural and political realities, good and bad. The author presents creative labour as a form of employment which... Read more

1. Introduction: Creative Industries and Cultural Decline 2. Creative Industries, Culture, and Education 3. Creative Labour as Talent 4. Creative Industries, Audience Labour and Digital Media 5. Creativity, Culture, and Artificial Intelligence 6. Creative Rhetoric and Marketing Culture 7. Creative, Normativity, and Culture 8. Creative Industries, Propaganda, and Nationalism 9. Conclusions

Biography

Phil Graham is Emeritus Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University’s Creative Arts Research Institute, Queensland, Australia.