Introducing the Creative Industries: From Theory to Practice

Informationen zum Autor Rosamund Davies has a background in professional practice in the film and television industries, in which she worked with both independent production companies and public funding bodies. As script editor and story consultant for Film London, she oversaw the development of around 100 projects. Rosamund has been a lecturer in creative and media writing at the University of Greenwich since 2001, founding and expanding the university's screenwriting provision. She also developed the Working in the Media and Creative Industries course, which became the basis for the book   Introducing the Creative Industries: From Theory to Practice   (SAGE, 2012), which she co-authored with colleague Gauti Sigthorsson. Rosamund is a member of the International Screenwriting Research Group and sits on the Programme Committee of the Adaptive Hypertext and Narrative Connections track for ACM Hypertext. Her publications include articles and book chapters on screenwriting, hypertext and online video. Her article Narrating the Archive and Archiving Narrative: the Logic of the Index in   International Journal of the Book , 5 (2008), was awarded the International Award for Excellence for the top ranked article in 2008. As an original member of the International Screenwriting Research Group, she has been active in the development of this new area of research and her article Screenwriting Strategies in Marguerite Duras's script for   Hiroshima, Mon Amour   (1960), was selected for inclusion in the first volume of the   Journal of Screenwriting   (2010) and identified as an example of innovation in screenwriting research (Koivumäki, M.R, 2011). In her recent media practice, Rosamund has explored the intersection between narrative and archive as cultural forms and transmedia storytelling approaches to dramatic narrative. As co-investigator on the interdisciplinary research project PATINA (Personal Architectonics Through Interaction with Artefacts), funded by the RCUK Digital Economy programme, Rosamund has brought narrative enquiry to the context of designing effective research spaces, collaborating with colleagues in computer science, human computer interaction, archeology and architecture at the universities of Southampto...

List of contents

Introduction: How to Use This Book
Chapter 1: What are the Creative Industries?
Defining the Creative Industries
Studying the Creative Industries - Three Approaches
Chapter 2: Creativity and Commerce
Patronage: Wealth, Power and Religion in Italian Renaissance Painting
The Marketplace: English Theatre in the Time of Shakespeare
Reproduction and Mass-production: The Print Revolution
Industrial Production
Industrialised Media Production: The Studio system
PART ONE: WORKING IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Chapter 3: Institutions, Ownership and Entrepreneurship
The Organisation of Production
Workplaces
Work Structures
Work Patterns
Finding Work
National and International Perspectives
Chapter 4: The Business of Creativity
Sole Traders and Micro Businesses
Financing a Creative Business
Contracts and Rights
Business Models
PEST: Political, Economic, Social and Technological Factors
Clustering and the Sense of Creative Community
Chapter 5: Work Routines and Work Cultures
Employees: Staffers, In-house Workers
Freelancers and Portfolio Workers
Networking
Equality of Opportunity?
PART TWO: PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION OF PRODUCTS
Chapter 6: Creative Producers and Products
Creative Goods and Services: Tangible and Intangible
Creative Originals Producers
Creative Content Producers
Creative Experience Providers
Creative Service Providers
From Simple Creative Goods to Complex Creative Goods
Chapter 7: Research, Development and Production
Research and Development
Production
Chapter 8: Circulation: Marketing and Distribution of Creative Products
Circulation
The Mass Market Model
Channels of Distribution and Marketing
What is Marketing?
Selling Stuff: Retail and its Disruptions
PART THREE: THE CREATIVE ECONOMY
Chapter 9: Institutional Commissioning and Financing Structures
Business Models in the Television Sector
Commissioning in Television
How Do Writers and Producers Get TV Commissions?
Finding a Route In
Commissioning and the Business of Magazine Publishing
Chapter 10: Clients, Funders and Going it Alone
Working to Brief: The Client Relationship.
Public Funding
Entrepreneurial Approaches
Self-funding
Crowdfunding
Chapter 11: The Changing Economic Landscape
Creativity and Commerce: Novelty, Risk and Change
Changing Work Routines and Work Cultures
Changing Structures and Models
Jobs That Don't Exist Yet
Glossary

Report

With the rapid growth in opportunities to work in the creative industries, there is a need for books that clearly outline the key issues. With a book rich with case studies and definitional materials, Davies and Sigthorsson have admirably met this challenge.
Professor Terry Flew
Queensland University of Technology


Full, fresh and fun, but also hard work - absorbing, detailed and ambitious. That's the creative industries, and also this book. It suits what it studies, showing how human creativity, meaningfulness and experience are organised at industrial scale. Aimed squarely at those who will be the workforce and wealth-creators of the future, this is the go-to guide for understanding a complex and varied market.
John Hartley
Curtin University, Australia, and Cardiff University, Wales

Product details

• Authors: Rosamund Davies, Davies Rosamund, Gauti Sigthorsson, Sigthorsson Gauti
• Assisted by: Rosamund Davies (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2013
• EAN: 9781849205733
• ISBN: 978-1-84920-573-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Media, Information & Communication Industries