Cultural Policy Review of Books

Oliver Bennett is Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, and founding editor of the International Journal of Cultural Policy. He has published widely on cultural policy and cultural politics.

• Chapter 1 Michel de Certeau, The practice of everyday life, Jeremy Ahearne; Chapter 2 Janet Minihan, The nationalization of culture: the development of state subsidies to the arts in Great Britain, Eleonora Belfiore; Chapter 3 James Buchan, Capital of the mind: how Edinburgh changed the world, Peter Bendixen; Chapter 4 Raymond Williams, Culture and society 1780–1950, Oliver Bennett; Chapter 5 Fred R. Myers, Painting culture: the making of an Aboriginal high art, Tony Bennett; Chapter 6 Peter Hall, Cities in civilization, Franco Bianchini; Chapter 7 Charles Dickens, Hard times: for these times, Chris Bilton; Chapter 8 Milton C. Cummings and Richard S. Katz (eds), The patron state: government and the arts in Europe, North America, and Japan, Jennifer Craik; Chapter 9 Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, socialism, and democracy, Stuart Cunningham; Chapter 10 Michel de Certeau, Culture in the plural, Milena Dragi?evi? Šeši?; Chapter 11 Jürgen Habermas, The structural transformation of the public sphere: an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society, Peter Duelund; Chapter 12 Tony Bennett, Culture: a reformer’s science, Lisanne Gibson; Chapter 13 Anthony Storr, The dynamics of creation, Christopher Gordon; Chapter 14 Hugh Jenkins, The culture gap: an experience of government and the arts, Clive Gray; Chapter 15 Russell Keat, Cultural goods and the limits of the market, David Hesmondhalgh; Chapter 16 W. McNeil Lowry, The performing arts and American society, Stanley N. Katz; Chapter 17 Howard Becker, Art worlds, Nobuko Kawashima; Chapter 18 Laurie Ouellette, Viewers like you? How public TV failed the people, Justin Lewis; Chapter 19 Joffre Dumazedier, Toward a society of leisure, David Looseley; Chapter 20 Ernst Kris and Otto Kurz, Legend, myth, and magic in the image of the artist: a historical experiment, Per Mangset; Chapter 21 Naomi Klein, No logo: taking aim at the brand bullies, Jim McGuigan; Chapter 22 Antonio Gramsci, Prison notebooks, Paola Merli; Chapter 23 Michel Foucault, The birth of biopolitics: lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–79, Toby Miller; Chapter 24 James Heartfield, The death of the subject explained, Munira Mirza; Chapter 25 Milton C. Cummings, Jr. and Richard S. Katz (eds), The patron state: government and the arts in Europe, North America and Japan, Kevin V. Mulcahy; Chapter 26 Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste, Graham Murdock; Chapter 27 Simon Frith, Sound effects: youth, leisure and the politics of rock ‘n’ roll, Andy C. Pratt; Chapter 28 Pierre Bourdieu, The field of cultural production: essays on art and literature, Sigrid Røyseng; Chapter 29 Alan Peacock, Paying the piper: culture, music and money, Michael Rushton; Chapter 30 Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (eds), Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, Philip Schlesinger; Chapter 31 John Myerscough, The economic importance of the arts in Britain, Sara Selwood; Chapter 32 Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Darbel and Dominique Schnapper, The love of art: European art museums and their public, Dorte Skot-Hansen; Chapter 33 Rosemary Coombe, The cultural life of intellectual properties: authorship, appropriation, and the law, Joost Smiers; Chapter 34 Jim McGuigan, Rethinking cultural policy, Alan Stanbridge; Chapter 35 Geoff Mulgan and Ken Worpole, Saturday night or Sunday morning? From arts to industry: new forms of cultural policy, Deborah Stevenson; Chapter 36 Richard A. Etlin, In defense of humanism: value in the arts and letters, David Throsby; Chapter 37 Erika Fischer-Lichte, History of European drama and theatre, Hans van Maanen; Chapter 38 Pierre Bourdieu, La distinction: critique sociale du jugement, Geir Vestheim; Chapter 39 Raymond Williams, The long revolution, Michael Volkerling; Chapter 40 Denise Meredyth and Jeffery Minsion (eds), Citizenship andcultural policy, Li-Jung Wang; Chapter 41 Néstor García Canclini, Consumers and citizens: globalization and multicultural conflicts, George Yúdice;

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