cultural industries and cultural policy : special issue

Investigation of a variety of relationships between the cultural industries and cultural policy. An important aim is to analyse governmental initiatives and rhetorics explicitly formulated as cultural or creative industries policies. What lies behind such policies? How do they relate to other kinds of cultural policy, including those more oriented towards media, communications, arts and heritage? Survey of the policy in the UK, in St. Petersburg, of the Hong Kong film industry and analysis of the role of the new media and of the British Labour government.