ENGL108D Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Canadian Identity, Knowledge Economy

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL108D
• Professor: Aimee Morrison

Document Summary

A mix of economic and cultural factors, with a very signi cant public policy overlay, has sparked the size of the creative industries pg 172. 3 mains economic drivers of the rise of creative industries: Service industry sectors (jobs went from factories and agriculture to service) Knowledge-based economy (vs physical goods because now they are made in other countries) Culturalization of the economy (good have stories associated with them) Government me controlling content, ideas, high/pop culture. Creative cities: municipal e. g. athens, florence, london, vienna, paris. Arts policy: supports high culture activity; government money to museums, money to opera. Cultural policy: supports more commercial more about media industry (cbc sitcoms);