Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce
- Author: Caves, Richard E.
[Caves] uses contract and industrial-organization theory to throw light on how and why the industries producing cultural goods and services--from literature to film, from rock music to opera--work... — More…
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Contents
- 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. Creative Products Go to Market: 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