Making capital from culture : the corporate form of capitalist cultural production

Frontmatter -- 1. Towards a Sociology of Culture: The Corporations of Culture and the Production and Circulation of Cultural Commodities -- 2. The Contradictions of the Cultural Commodity -- 3. The Production and Circulation of Cultural Commodities: A Sectoral Analysis of the Culture Industry -- 4. The Corporate Organisation of Cultural Production: The Creative Stage and the Project Team -- 5. Rationalising the Creative Stage of Production: The Formatting of Creativity -- 6. Rationalising the Cultural Marketplace: The Marketing of Cultural Commodities and the Making of Stars and Styles -- 7. Rationalising the Cultural Marketplace: The Publicity Complex and the Cycles of Fashion -- 8. A Postscript -- References -- Index 1. Towards a Sociology of Culture: The Corporations of Culture and the Production and Circulation of Cultural Commodities 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Methodological Considerations 1.3 The Corporate Form of Capitalist Cultural Commodity Production 2 The Contradictions of the Cultural Commodity 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Contradiction and the Culture Industry 2.3 The Social Constitution of Art and the Artist and Residues in the Culture Industry 2.4 The Contradictions of the Artist-Capitalist Relation 2.5 The Contradictions of the Cultural Commodity 2.6 Conclusion 3 The Production and Circulation of Cultural Commodities: A Sectoral Analysis of the Culture Industry 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Commodities, Realisation, Marketing and Publicity 3.3 Types of Cultural Commodities, Their Systems of Circulation and Relations of Distribution 3.4 Conclusion 4 The Corporate Organisation of Cultural Production: The Creative Stage and the Project Team 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Accumulation and the Capitalist Labour Process 4.3 The Organisation of Corporate Cultural Commodity Production 4.4 Labour Organisation in the Creative Stage of Production 4.5 Production Relations in the Creative Stage 4.6 Conclusion: 5 Rationalising the Creative Stage of Production: The Formatting of Creativity 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Bureaucratisation of the Workplace in the Corporate Era of Capital 5.3 Corporate Control in the Creative Stage of Production 5.4 Formatting the Creative Stage of Production 5.5 Formatting As a System of Creative Control 5.6 Conclusion 6 Rationalising the Cultural Marketplace: The Marketing of Cultural Commodities and the Making of Stars and Styles 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Marketing: Culture at the Service of Capital 6.3 Marketing Cultural Commodities: The Making of Stars and Styles 6.4 The Determinant Effects in Production of Marketing Cultural Commodities: Commercialism and Formatting 6.5 Conclusion 7 Rationalising the Cultural Marketplace: The Publicity Complex and the Cycles of Fashion 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Publicising Stars and Styles: The Circulation of Cultural Commodities and the Publicity Complex 7.3 The Institutionalisation of the Publicist and Its Consequences 7.4 Conclusion: 8 A Postscript 8.1 A Sociology of Culture 8.2 The Ideology Problematic and Textual Analysis References Index

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Making Capital From Culture: Corporate Form Of Capitalist Cultural Production (De Gruyter Studies In Organization) Bill Ryan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [269]-282) And Index.