Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
About the Book Series
This series brings together book-length original research in cultural and creative industries from a range of perspectives. Charting developments in contemporary cultural and creative industries thinking around the world, the series aims to shape the research agenda to reflect the expanding significance of the creative sector in a globalised world.
Artists Incorporated: Corporate Collaborations with Artists and their Impact on Business
1st Edition
By Thomas Blonski
June 18, 2026
Taking an exhaustive look at the changing relationship between artists and business organisations, this book demonstrates how artists are no longer confined to the art market. Recent developments in art, artistic work, and management have fostered an unprecedented convergence between artists and ...
Pop Culture Marketing in the Publishing Industry: "Good Luck, Babe!"
1st Edition
By Miriam J. Johnson
April 29, 2026
This comprehensive study examines how UK publishers leverage pop culture across TikTok and Instagram, analysing over 1,000 posts from sixteen publishers during twelve months. The research demonstrates how pop culture functions as a powerful distribution mechanism within the attention economy, ...
Global Creative and Cultural Industries Policy: Opportunities, Challenges and Implications
1st Edition
By Tarek E. Virani
April 24, 2026
Examining the global creative and cultural industries (CCIs), this book seeks to help readers understand key policy challenges faced by the sector. It reveals a key contradiction: while the sector is praised for flexibility and innovation, it suffers from job insecurity and unequal value ...
Creative and Cultural Work in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Miikka Pyykkönen, David Wright
March 25, 2026
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, popular music, the platform economy, and film. The creative economy has been lauded by national and regional ...
The Economics of Libraries
1st Edition
By Marco Ferdinando Martorana, Ilde Rizzo
January 30, 2026
Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries, together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives, and they play an important role in the creative value chain. The Economics of Libraries highlights the economic importance ...
NFTs, Creativity and the Law: Within and Beyond Copyright
1st Edition
Edited
By Enrico Bonadio, Caterina Sganga
December 26, 2025
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have emerged as an important medium for the creation, sale and collection of art, with many major business and fashion houses creating their own NFT projects. This book investigates the eruption of NFT crypto art, and its impact on copyright law. Chapters address topics ...
Managing Projects in the Creative Industries
1st Edition
By Julie Bérubé, Laureline Chiapello, Hélène Caron
December 23, 2025
This book offers a critical and transdisciplinary rethinking of project management in the creative industries. Bridging theory and practice, it explores how traditional approaches can be adapted, enriched, or challenged to better respond to the complex, uncertain, and value-driven nature of ...
Plural Values of Culture in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Nancy Duxbury, Antonella Fresa, Gábor Sonkoly
December 23, 2025
In recent years, the plurality of values of culture has been increasingly recognized in practical, academic, and policymaking contexts. Beyond its traditional intrinsic values—linked to aesthetics, authenticity, and excellence—its capacity to contribute to well-being, to promote identity and ...
Law and Finance in International Art Markets: Tools for the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisabetta Lazzaro, Nathalie Moureau, Adriana Turpin
December 11, 2025
This book brings together scholars from numerous fields of expertise to explore the legal and financial structures of historic and contemporary art markets around the world. Chapters bring in perspectives from across the human and social sciences, employing a range of methods interpret the creation...
Artificial Intelligence in the Cultural and Creative Sectors: Opportunities, Challenges, and Transformations
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Massi, Marek Prokůpek, Alessandra Ricci, Maria Carmela Ostillio
November 13, 2025
This book explores how AI is redefining the creative and cultural sectors, reshaping how content is produced, distributed, experienced, and managed. Spanning areas such as publishing, heritage, music, performance, and design, the book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of...
Cultural Policy: Perspectives on the Island of Ireland
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Durrer, Ali FitzGibbon, Kerry McCall Magan
October 30, 2025
Cultural Policy: Perspectives on the Island of Ireland draws together a wide range of academic perspectives and disciplines that relate to cultural policy in the context of the island of Ireland (Ireland and Northern Ireland). Through the study of the unique context of this intertwined two-polity ...
International Relations and the Development of Korea’s Film Industry
1st Edition
By Jimmyn Parc, Stephen Ranger
October 22, 2025
This book examines the evolution of the Korean film industry, presenting a comprehensive account from the early days of experimental screening to its current period of attracting increased foreign investment. Exploring the Korean film industry’s troubled past, this book covers occupation, civil war...