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title: Cultural Policy & Industries
description: Cultural policy and industries studies how creative sectors, such as film, music, and publishing, are regulated, funded, and commercialized. Learners will understand the economic, political, and social forces that shape the production and distribution of cultural goods.
category: humanities
subcategory: cultural-studies
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/cultural-policy-and-industries
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# Cultural Policy & Industries

Cultural policy and industries studies how creative sectors, such as film, music, and publishing, are regulated, funded, and commercialized. Learners will understand the economic, political, and social forces that shape the production and distribution of cultural goods.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. UNESCO Cultural Policy Platform

Searchable database of cultural policies and measures reported by states party to UNESCO's 2005 Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Useful for comparing how different countries support artists, cultural industries and media pluralism.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://en.unesco.org/creativity/policy-monitoring-platform

**Tags:** cultural-policy, unesco, cultural-diversity, creative-industries

### 2. Compendium of Cultural Policies & Trends in Europe

Monitoring system of European cultural policy, holding country profiles written by independent experts to a common chapter structure, plus comparative tables. Readers can compare funding models, legislation and governance across more than forty countries.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.culturalpolicies.net/

**Tags:** cultural-policy, europe, comparative-policy, cultural-governance

### 3. unesco.org/creativity

UNESCO's Creativity for Development page provides policy guidance, research, and resources on culture, creativity, and the creative economy as drivers of sustainable development. It includes publications, case studies, data, tools for policymakers, and updates on initiatives related to creative industries, culture, and heritage.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://unesco.org/creativity

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies

## Books

### 1. The Cultural Industries

**Author:** David Hesmondhalgh

Hesmondhalgh's standard survey of how media and cultural production changed since the 1980s, tracing ownership, policy, labour and digital platforms. Readers finish able to analyse a creative sector's political economy rather than just its output.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1446209261?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies

### 2. Creative Industries

**Author:** John Hartley, Jason Potts, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew, Michael Keane, John Banks

A SAGE key-concepts reference defining the core terms used across creative-industries research, covering economics, policy, intellectual property and digital culture. Each short entry gives an argument and further reading, so you can follow the field's debates.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1446202895?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies

### 3. Culture and Economy

**Author:** Paul du Gay, Michael Pryke

An edited collection from a 2000 Open University workshop treating markets, organisations and money as cultural constructions. Contributors examine corporate culture, the knowledge economy and market culture, showing how economic life is made through representation and calculation.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761959939?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies

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