Cultural industries, nation and state in the work of Renato Ortiz: A view from inside the Anglosphere

Authors

  • Philip Schlesinger University of Glasgow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/csu.2018.54.2.04

Abstract

This short essay reflects on Renato Ortiz’s work and its reception in the Anglosphere. It then discusses the author’s meeting with Ortiz in Scotland during a European-Latin American ‘encounter’ set up to discuss cultural identity and communication. Contextual changes in the past two decades are noted and the essay moves on to consider how Ortiz addressed ‘cultural industries’ in A moderna tradição brasileira. The essay concludes by relating this perspective to the contemporary debate on the ‘creative economy’.

Keywords: Anglosphere, cultural industries, creative economy, nation, state.

Author Biography

Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow

Professor of Glasgow University, School of Culture and Creative Arts.

Philip Schlesinger was appointed as the University of Glasgow’s inaugural Chair in Cultural Policy and directed CCPR from January 2007 - 2013.  He is a Deputy Director of CREATe, the RCUK's Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative economy, which is led by the University of Glasgow.  He is currently Visiting Professor of Media and Communications at the LSE.  He was previously Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Stirling and founding Director of Stirling Media Research Institute. He has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Greenwich, a Nuffield Social Science Research Fellow, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute of Florence, and has held the Queen Victoria Eugenia Chair of Doctoral Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was a longstanding Visiting Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lugano, and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Toulouse, CELSA in Paris, LUISS University in Rome, the University of Salamanca, and a Visiting Scholar at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.

He is the author of Putting 'Reality' Together (2nd ed. 1987) and Media, State and Nation (1991) and co-author of Los Intelectuales y la Sociedad de La Información (1987), Televising ‘Terrorism’ (1983), Women Viewing Violence (1992), Reporting Crime (1994) Open Scotland? (2001), Mediated Access (2003), The Rise and Fall of the UK Film Council (2015) and Curators of Cultural Enterprise (2015).  His co-edited books include Media, Culture & Society (1986), Communicating Politics (1986), Culture and Power (1992), European Transformations (1994), International Media Research (1997), The Sage Handbook of Media Studies (2004) and The European Union and the Public Sphere (2007).

 

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Published

2018-09-28

Issue

Vol. 54 No. 2 (2018): May/August

Section

Dossiê: A moderna tradição brasileira, 30 anos depois

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