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.
Law and Finance in International Art Markets: Tools for the Future
1st Edition
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By Elisabetta Lazzaro, Nathalie Moureau, Adriana Turpin
November 10, 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
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By Marta Massi, Marek Prokupek, Alessandra Ricci, Maria Carmela Ostillio
November 07, 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
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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...
Visual Research Methods in Arts Administration: Incorporating Photo Elicitation
1st Edition
By Elise Lael Kieffer
October 14, 2025
This book explores the benefits of incorporating the photo-elicitation method into interviews within arts and cultural administration, leadership, and management research. For the qualitative researcher, photographs open pathways to richer understandings of experiences, thoughts, beliefs, and ...
Responsible Cultural Consumption and Production: Insights From Live Experiences, Film and Fashion
1st Edition
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By Ilaria Pappalepore, Elisa Salvador
September 12, 2025
Exploring the Sustainability Development Goal for Responsible Consumption and Production, this volume provides insights from the performing arts, festivals and events, film industry, and fashion sectors. With a variety of examples and case studies, contributors illuminate the political and social ...
Responsible Consumption and Production in the Creative and Cultural Industries: Actions, Policies, and Strategies for a Sustainable Future
1st Edition
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By Elisa Salvador, Ilaria Pappalepore
June 20, 2025
No sector can escape the challenge of the climate crisis. This book brings together a team of academic experts to urgently examine the intersection of sustainability and the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), particularly within the framework of Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG 12): ...
Creative Work: Conditions, Contexts and Practices
1st Edition
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By Erika Andersson Cederholm, Katja Lindqvist, Ida de Wit Sandström, Philip Warkander
May 27, 2025
How do creative workers work? This book brings together insights from a range of relevant disciplines to help answer this significant research question. Featuring case studies from the European context, contributors tap into the experiences and practices from creative workers, demonstrating their ...
Digital Transformation in The Recording Industry: Evolution of Power: From The Turntable To Blockchain
1st Edition
By Anna Anetta Janowska
May 06, 2025
The recording industry has famously been transformed by technology throughout its entire history. The book presents an analysis of these changes using Porter's five forces model. The author highlights the evolution of buyers' and suppliers' power, the emergence of new competitors, product ...
Publishing as a Creative Industry
1st Edition
By Stevie Marsden
April 21, 2025
Book publishing is big business, contributing significant employment in the creative industries and adding billions to the global economy. Despite this, the sector is often overlooked in the creative industries' research tide. This book remedies this gap in knowledge, providing an examination of ...
Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe
1st Edition
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By Ole Marius Hylland, Jaka Primorac
April 14, 2025
What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe analyzes and compares different digital cultural policies of Europe. Through case studies of seven European countries (UK, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Norway, and Switzerland) as well as the...
The Political Economy of the Creative and Cultural Industries: Stitching Perspectives for Research, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
By Leandro Valiati
February 12, 2025
The creative and cultural industries (CCIs) are often seen by markets as critical drivers of economic growth and by governments as feasible ways to foster development. The link between these two perspectives lies in the CCIs’ capacity to generate both economic value and social innovation ...