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Bachelor 2022/2023

Cultural and Creative Industries

Type: Elective course (Media Communications)
Area of studies: Media Communications
Delivered by: Institute of Media
When: 4 year, 3 module
Mode of studies: distance learning
Online hours: 20
Open to: students of all HSE University campuses
Language: English
ECTS credits: 4
Contact hours: 6

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Main objective of this course is to trace the development of the Cultural and Creative Industries as an idea and as concept and to identify the key points of changes within it in relations with contemporary digital connected world. Another important task of this course is to provide the deep understanding of the difference between cultural and symbolic meaning products (such as films, recorded music, book and periodicals, online media content etc) and other kind of goods.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Identify main peculiarities of cultural and symbolic goods in their difference with other branches of economy in terms of production chain, risks, relationship between different stages of production.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Be able to analyze cultural policies and creative industries/clusters policies.
  • Be able to analyze cultural products and symbolic goods from the organizational, economic, business model point of view.
  • Be able to invent new business models and analyze cultural products in terms of their productions risk.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Theory of cultural industries
  • Main principles of classic cultural industries
  • History of reproducibility in media
  • Evolution of cultural industries in digital age
  • Concentration in the field of cultural industries
  • Creative industries and cultural industries
  • Education as creative industry
  • Policies in the field of creative and cultural industries
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Tests
  • non-blocking Peer review tasks
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2022/2023 3rd module
    The final grade calculation rule is published on the online course page.
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Beck, A. (2003). Cultural Work : Understanding the Cultural Industries. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=137678
  • Eisenstein, E. L. (2012). The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Vol. Second edition, Canto classics edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=644556
  • Fitzgerald, S. W. (2012). Corporations and Cultural Industries : Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=433577
  • Kerr, A. (2006). The Business and Culture of Digital Games : Gamework and Gameplay. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=251513
  • Mayer, V., Banks, M. J., & Caldwell, J. T. (2009). Production Studies : Cultural Studies of Media Industries. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=289618
  • McRobbie, A. (2015). Be Creative : Making a Living in the New Culture Industries. Chicester: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1158829
  • Power, D., & Scott, A. J. (2004). Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=115439

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Benhamou, F., & Ginsburgh, V. (2006). Copies of Artworks: The Case of Paintings and Prints. Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, 253. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.h.eee.artchp.1.08
  • Françoise Benhamou. (2011). Artists’ Labour Markets. Chapters. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.h.elg.eechap.13789.7
  • McAlpine, A. (2015). Chapter 04 - Printing as a Catalyst for Social Revolution. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.AFB3F905
  • McRobbie, A. (2016). Towards a Sociology of Fashion Micro-enterprises: Methods for Creative Economy Research. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.DE1E782D

Authors

  • KIRIYA ILYA VADIMOVICH