Culture Industries in a Postindustrial Age: Entertainment, Leisure, Creativity, Design

This article reviews the evolution of the concept of culture industries, when neither industry nor culture themselves are today what they were at the time when the term was coined. It attempts to explain the dilution of the term into more nebulous terms (“leisure industries,” “entertainment industries” or “creative industries”) and suggests new challenges for the research on culture industries. What is at stake is no longer an application of a Fordist production to culture, a one-directional mass communication and a mediation by experts, but rather: (1) a cultural experience which is no longer clearly separated from other activities (leisure in general, consumption and even work); (2) the communicative explosion of all industrial production in a media environment, where industrialized symbolic products are mixed with culturalized industrial products; and (3) the empowerment of the recipient, which on one hand ignores the traditional experts and on the other leads to post-productive (recreational and even creative) cultural practices.

The Olio, or, Museum of entertainment.

Title from caption; imprint from volume title page.

Hospital entertainment guide : no. 5 /

On t.p.: Hospital daze : a musical comedy with words and music.

Banquet scene, divided into two registers: upper, men and women sit together attended by one servant-girl; lower, four musicians shown seated on the ground while two dancers provide entertainment for the guests

Thebes (deserted settlement), Egypt; 2 ft. 10 41/64 in.x 3 ft. 3 11/64 in.x 8 21/32 in.; painted plaster

The Daniel Boone pageant; an entertainment for boys in five scenes ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Practical recitations; short pieces for school entertainment for children of thirteen years.

Mode of access: Internet.

Sharpe's London magazine of entertainment and instruction, for general reading.

Vols. 22-23 include illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Program Overseas.

Shipping list no.: 87-27-P.

Sharpe's London magazine of entertainment and instruction, for general reading.

Vols. 22-23 include illustrations by George Cruikshank.

The bridal of Pennacook; entertainment in tableaux and pantomime, illustrating an Indian legend,

Illustrated cover.

Calendar days, an entertainment in one act ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The Guernsey magazine; a monthly illustrated journal of useful information, instruction, and entertainment.

Mode of access: Internet.

Select readings for public and private entertainment : containing choice selections of the most pathetic, gay, humorous, heroic, sublime, and patriotic speeches and poems, accompanied by explanatory notes, together with appropriate elocutionary instructions ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Bonbons, a musical and dramatic entertainment ...

Without music.