Cultural Studies, Creative Industries, and Cultural Science

2012 ◽  
pp. 27-58 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Science

From Chauvel to creatives: Celebrating the career of Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110441
Author(s):  
Terry Flew ◽  
Amanda D Lotz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Academic Leadership ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Communications Media

This essay introduces the special issue of Media International Australia dedicated to the work of Stuart Cunningham. We note the scholarly contributions made by Stuart Cunningham to communications, media and cultural studies, including screen studies, creative industries and cultural policy studies. We also note his extensive contributions to institution building and academic leadership in engaging with industry and policy agencies from an applied humanities perspective.

Immigration and climate change might just matter more than getting that next grant

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 970-988
Author(s):  
Toby Miller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Third

Why has cultural studies had little impact on right-wing populism’s assault on immigration and climate science? I suggest that this failure lies in three tendencies: first, a continued if increasingly cliché sunny optimism about the popular; second, the priority accorded to getting grants, which depoliticizes so much work; and third, an embrace of creative-industries discourse. The first tendency supposedly gives a link to our origins; the second, to legitimacy; and the third, to relevance. All render us ill-equipped to deal with contemporary and future crises.

scholarly journals On the move: Twentieth anniversary editorial of the European Journal of Cultural Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 595-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joke Hermes ◽  
Jaap Kooijman ◽  
Jo Littler ◽  
Helen Wood
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Fantasy Sports ◽  
Black British ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary ◽  
Do So

Twenty years of the European Journal of Cultural Studies is a cause for celebration. We do so with a festive issue that comes together with our first free open access top articles in three areas that readers have sought us out for: postfeminism, television beyond textual analysis and cultural labour in the creative industries. The issue opens with freshly commissioned introductory essays to these three thematic areas by key authors in those fields. In addition, the issue offers new articles showcasing the range of the broad field of cultural studies today, including pieces on the politics of co-working, punk in China, Black British women on YouTube, trans-pedagogy and fantasy sports gameplay, featuring work by emerging as well as established scholars. Our editorial introduction to this celebratory issue offers reflections on how both the journal and the field of cultural studies have developed, and on our thoughts and ambitions for the future within the current conjuncture as we ‘move on’ as a new editorial team.

Understanding the industry/state interface in creative industries studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110439
Author(s):  
Patricia Aufderheide
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Real World ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Media Industries ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Intellectual Autonomy

It is time to transcend the cultural studies vs. media industries debate in media industries studies. To take advantage of the exemplary focus on real-world behavior of media industries that Stuart Cunningham brought to the field, scholars need to articulate the normative values informing their media industries research. This is necessary in order to preserve academics’ intellectual autonomy, and to maintain scholarly rigor.

scholarly journals Portuguese Cultural Studies/Cultural Studies in Portugal: Some Thoughts on the Making and Remaking of a Field

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Sampaio
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
The Bologna Process

This article discusses the overall situation of cultural studies in Portugal. It starts by analysing some of the courses and graduate programmes currently on offer. The results suggest that cultural studies is experiencing a fast academic expansion. While this seems to be entangled with top-down institutional changes, in the wake of the Bologna process and the turn to the cultural/ creative industries and as part of a more general shift to the ’new economy’, there are reasons to believe that al-ternative understandings of cultural studies have not died out. The name ’cultural studies’ continues to cause unease in some academic quarters (namely, in literary studies) and there is ambiguity regarding what is meant by it. Cautioning against the tendency to reduce Portuguese cultural studies to a straightforward import from the Anglophone world, I argue for the need to conduct historically informed research on local strands and traditions of cultural theory and critique. I conclude that only a combined synchronic and diachronic approach – one that is sensitive to national and transnational contexts and intersections – will allow us to gain a bet-ter understanding of the deep-running contradictions that characterise the field, helping us to clarify the stakes and reconnect to a socially relevant and critique-orientated intellectual project.

TV Series Production and the Urban Restructuring of Istanbul

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ipek A. Celik Rappas ◽  
Sezen Kayhan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Series Representation ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Series Production ◽  
Urban Restructuring ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
1001 Nights ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

This article explores the entangled relationship between Turkish TV series and the city of Istanbul examining both the series’ representation of the city and the effects of flourishing series’ production on the city. We argue that TV series production and representation changes and is changed by the urban restructuring of globalizing Istanbul since the late 1980s. Analyzing internationally popular series such as Noor, Valley of the Wolves, and 1001 Nights and building on television, urban and cultural studies, this article explores the ways that Istanbul’s neoliberal renovation process appears in and is shaped by TV series. The three segments of the article probe how series reflect and push forth the gentrification of historical neighborhoods, their increasing use of abandoned post-industrial areas as shooting locations, and their promotion of spaces associated with creative industries and luxury lifestyles. We show that both images and image making are connected to city making.

scholarly journals Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media”: Reflections on the Scholarship of a Transnational and Transmedia Industry

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Hernández-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Special Issue

This article introduces the special issue dedicated to global industries around anime, its theoretical commentary and its cross-cultural consumption. The concepts “anime” and “anime studies” are evaluated critically, involving current debates such as those presented in this volume. This discussion will employ the concepts of “manga media” as well as the “popular global”, giving an account of the transmedia and transcultural character of these creative industries. The conclusion critiques the irregular presence of Cultural Studies in the study of Japanese visual culture and advocates for constructing an updated dialogue with this tradition in order to readdress the study of these media as a form of global popular culture.

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