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David Hesmondhalgh (Author)
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  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; Second Edition edition (3 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1412908086
  • ISBN-13: 978-1412908085
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 17.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The first edition of The Cultural Industries moved us irrevocably past the tired debates between political economy and cultural studies approaches. This second edition takes on new and vital targets, for example claims that the Internet is replacing television in everyday media consumption.... In the process, Hesmondhalgh provides us with an essential toolkit for making critical sense of the digital media age, and our places within it
Nick Couldry
Goldsmiths College, University Of London

This book sets a valuable standard for communication studies. Hesmondhalgh integrates cultural research with political economy, organizational sociology with public communication policy studies, global with comparative analysis, and intellectual property law with technology changes. I've successfully taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the USA and France using the first edition, and this one is better still
John D.H. Downing
Global Media Research Centre, Southern Illinois University

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'The first edition of The Cultural Industries moved us irrevocably past the tired debates between political economy and cultural studies approaches. This second edition takes on new and vital targets, for example claims that the Internet is replacing television in everyday media consumption.... In the process, Hesmondhalgh provides us with an essential toolkit for making critical sense of the digital media age, and our places within it' - Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths College, University Of London

'This book sets a valuable standard for communication studies. Hesmondhalgh integrates cultural research with political economy, organizational sociology with public communication policy studies, global with comparative analysis, and intellectual property law with technology changes. I've successfully taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the USA and France using the first edition, and this one is better still' - John D.H. Downing, Global Media Research Centre, Southern Illinois University

Praise for the first edition:

'This lucid, careful and sophisticated book orders the entire field, for the US as well as Europe, and at one stroke becomes the state of the art, the standard' - Todd Gitlin, Columbia University, USA

This book is a powerful antidote to journalistic hype about change in the cultural industries. Significantly expanding, updating and revising an acclaimed first edition published in 2002, it

· analyses how, why and in what ways cultural production has changed since the 1980s

· guides the reader through existing approaches

· scrutinises facts and debates about the role of culture and creativity in modern societies

· provides new material on copyright, cultural policy, celebrity power, the digital distribution of music and many other issues

Like its predecessor, this exciting new edition of The Cultural Industries places transformation in the cultural industries in long-term political, economic and cultural context. In doing so, Hesmondhalgh offers a distinctive critical approach to cultural production, drawing on political economy perspectives, but also on cultural studies, sociology and social theory.

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I really found this book extremly useful in helping explain the cultural indurtries. For the course I'm doing at University, this book helped me through it and came in so useful. I would reccommend that anyone doing cultural studies (especially at QMUC) buy this book.
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Very refined analysis, not for those who want a quick, simple, or unrealistic analysis of cultural industries today 13 July 2010
By Cheung Chi Wai - Published on Amazon.com
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I was a bit shocked by the previous review, which says the book is a chore to read and doesn't have any answer to the questions it raises. I think the author offers an answer - cultural industries are extremely complex, and a wide range of social, cultural, and political forces are constantly shaping the cultural industries. His strategy of analysis is to broadly outline some historical trends of cultural industries; but he also adds more complexity in analyzing these trends, warning us not to reify those trends. There is no XXX-determinism in this book. Rather, it calls for more refined analysis of the cultural industries around the world. Many scholars have praised the book, and I don't think they're lying. If one wants to hold on to simplistic approaches like some hard-core versions of the political economy approach, which tend to downplay the complexity of things, s/he should avoid reading this book. But if you believe in Gramsci and the idea that culture (production, text and reception) is always in a state of struggle, this book is for you.
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Avoid if you can help it! 8 Jan 2009
By Goldom - Published on Amazon.com
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David Hesmondhalgh's The Cultural Industries purports to be a guide to the changes in the popular media (TV, movies, music, books, etc.) over the last several decades, in particular how their ownership by conglomerates is affecting their quality. Yet if there is a substantial part of this book, I can't find it.
The first half of the book, nearly every page seems to reference that the important details will be dealt with in the later chapters. Once there, I was being referred back to the first half. Hesmondhalgh's entire content consists of summaries of a wide variety of existing writing on the topic, most of which is prefaced by calling it out as wrong and invalid. Yet a new counter-idea is never presented.
Even for this derivative style, The Cultural Industries manages to fail. For example, Hesmondhalgh sounds extremely out of place when writing about technology and the Internet (though this does not stop him from devoting a chapter to the subject). In a section trying to explain Web 2.0, he claims, "So the concept applies to software such as Linux, Apache and Perl and to applications such as Google, eBay and Amazon..." Linux is an operating system. Perl isn't even software - it's a programming language. And if calling websites "applications" isn't bizarre enough, you could not pick a worse example of Web 2.0 than Google: It's a white page with one (practical) item on it.
Overall, The Cultural Industries is a chore to read, and utterly devoid of information that couldn't be found in a dozen other, better written books.
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