Creative Industry: Cultural Production or Cultural Control?

A Critical Policy Analysis of UK Creative Industries Policy Documents

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210519.044How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Creative industries, Policy analysis, Cultural studies, The culture industry

Abstract

Since the British government issued the first creative industries mapping document in 1998, the creative industry has gradually become one of the pillars of the British economy from an emerging industry. This industry is succeeding in turning art and culture into commodities. The successful development of the creative industry cannot be separated from the support of government policies. In order to analyse the role of the British government in the development process and the planning of the creative industry. The first section of this article will review current literature on the topic of the creative industries. The second section will introduce the methodology of this article derived from Adorno and Horkheimer’s culture industry, along with Tony Bennett’s cultural policy study to analyse the UK’s creative industries policy documents. The final part of this paper will take this method to critically analyse the creative industries policy documents released by the British government. In the creative industry, the British government adopts a kind of soft control, which indirectly controls the industry by cultivating creative talents. The result of such soft control is to turn culture more profitable while inducing creativity into the economic process.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shuao Lin
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - Creative Industry: Cultural Production or Cultural Control?
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 220
EP  - 230
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.044
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.044
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