Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce

Richard E. Caves (作者) 

出版社: Harvard University Press; Revised ed. (2002年4月30日)

平装: 464页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0674008081

条形码: 9780674008083

商品尺寸: 23.4 x 16.1 x 3 cm

商品重量: 522 g

商品描述 

This text explores the organisation of creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, movies, theatre, sound recordings, and book publishing. In each, artistic inputs are combined with other, "hundrum" inputs. But the deals that bring these inputs together are inherently problematic artists have a strong views; the muse whispers erratically, and consumer approval remains highly uncertain until all costs have been incurred. 

To assemble, distribute, and store creative products, business firms are organised, some employing creative personnel on long-term contracts, others dealing with them as outside contractors; agents emerge as intermediaries, negotiating contracts and matching creative talents with employers. Firms in creative industries are either small-scale pickers that concentrate on the selection and development of new creative talents or large-scale promoters that undertake the packaging and widespread distribution of established creative goods.

In some activities, such as the performing arts, creative ventures facing high fixed costs turn to non-profit firms. To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts. 

He addresses the winner-take-all character of many creative activities that brings wealth and renown to some artists while dooming others to frustration; why the "option" form of contract is so prevalent; and why even savvy producers get sucked into making "ten-ton turkeys" such as "Heaven's Gate". However different their superficial organisation and aesthetic properties, whether high or low in cultural ranking, creative industries share the same underlying organisational logic.

作者简介

Richard E. Caves is Nathaniel Ropes Research Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.

目录

Preface Introduction: Economic Properties of Creative Activities Part I: Supplying Simple Creative Goods 1. Artists as Apprentices 2. Artists, Dealers, and Deals 3. Artist and Gatekeeper: Trade Books, Popular Records, and Classical Music 4. Artists, Starving and Well-Fed

Part II: Supplying Complex Creative Goods

5. The Hollywood Studios Disintegrate 6. Contracts for Creative Products: Films and Plays 7. Guilds, Unions, and Faulty Contracts 8. The Nurture of Ten-Ton Turkeys 9. Creative Products Go to Market: Books and Records 10. 

Films Part III: Demand for Creative Goods 11. Buffs, Buzz, and Educated Tastes 12. Consumers, Critics, and Certifiers 13. Innovation, Fads, and Fashions

Part IV: Cost Conundrums 14. Covering High Fixed Costs 15. Donor-Supported Nonprofit Organizations in the Performing Arts 16. Cost Disease and Its Analgesics

Part V: The Test of Time 17. Durable Creative Goods: Rents Pursued through Time and Space 18. Payola 19. Organizing to Collect Rents: Music Copyrights 20. Entertainment Conglomerates and the Quest for Rents 21. Filtering and Storing Durable Creative Goods: Visual Arts 22. New versus Old Art: Boulez Meets Beethoven Epilogue Notes Index