From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production under Capitalism - Couverture souple

Chanan, Michael

 
9780745340968: From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production under Capitalism
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ISBN 10 : 0745340962 ISBN 13 : 9780745340968
Editeur : Pluto Press, 2022

Synopsis

For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however, capital is hostile to the arts because it cannot fully control the process of creativity. But while he saw the arts as marginal to capital accumulation, that was before the birth of the mass media. Engaging with the major issues in Marxist theory around art and capitalism, From Printing to Streaming traces how the logic of cultural capitalism evolved from the print age to digital times, tracking the development of printing, photography, sound recording, newsprint, advertising, film and broadcasting, exploring the peculiarities of each as commodities, and their recent transformation by digital technology, where everything melts into computer code. Showing how these developments have had profound implications for both cultural creation and consumption, Chanan offers a radical and comprehensive analysis of the commodification of artistic creation and the struggle to realise its potential in the digital age.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Chanan is a documentary filmmaker, writer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Roehampton. He has written extensively on film and video in Latin America and has filmed in most of the countries in the continent at intervals since the early 1980s, as well as writing on other film history topics and the social history of music, and making several films on capitalism in crisis. His latest film is 'Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes'.

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Éditeur
Pluto Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745340962
ISBN 13 
9780745340968
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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