Cultural and Creative Industries

Bachelor 2022/2023

Type: Elective course (Media Communications)

Area of studies: Media Communications

Delivered by: Institute of Media

Where: Faculty of Creative Industries

When: 4 year, 3 module

Mode of studies: distance learning

Online hours: 20

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Alexander Kupriyanov

Language: English

ECTS credits: 4

Contact hours: 6

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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

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

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

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

Tests
Peer review tasks

Interim Assessment

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

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

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