From Printing to Streaming - Cultural Production Under Capitalism

Explores the impact of digital technologies on the logic of cultural capitalism

List of contents

Series Preface

Preface

1. Autonomy of the Aesthetic

2. The Changing Logic of Artistic Production

3. Cultural Commodification

4. Countercurrents

5. From Analog to Digital

6. Creativity Reconsidered

Bibliography

Notes

About the author

Michael Chanan is a documentary filmmaker, writer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Roehampton. He has written extensively on film and video in Latin America and has filmed in most of the countries in the continent at intervals since the early 1980s, as well as writing on other film history topics and the social history of music, and making several films on capitalism in crisis. His latest film is Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes.

Summary

Explores the impact of digital technologies on the logic of cultural capitalism

Product details

• Authors: Michael Chanan, Michael (University of Roehampton) Chanan
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9780745340968
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4096-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Marxism and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Photography & photographs, Cultural Studies, Capitalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, ART / Business Aspects, Political Economy, Economic systems & structures, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Marxism & Communism, Media, Information & Communication Industries, Photography and photographs, Art: Financial Aspects, Printing and reprographic technologies, Printing & Reprographic Technology