Fringe to Famous : Cultural Production in Australia after the Creative Industries / Tony Moore [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Tony, author.

Gibson, Mark, author.

McAuliffe, Chris, author.

Edmond, Maura, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Australia.

Mass media.

Independent films--Australia.

Independent films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Bloomsbury Academic USA, 2024.

Summary:

"Drawing on dozens of original interviews and close analysis of Australian examples sampled from across 40 years of "indie" music, comedy, film, computer games, and graphic design, Fringe to Famous explores how some of Australia's leading cultural practitioners negotiate their position between the margins and the mainstream in the contemporary period. Fringe to Famous critically re-examines the relations between "independent" and "mainstream" cultural production at a time when the very meaning and relevance of those terms is being widely debated. In recent decades, critically-aware artists and their entrepreneurial business partners have engaged in a playful negotiation of marginal and mainstream tastes, harnessing the values associated with the creative underground-transgression, independence, authenticity-for both aesthetic and commercial ends. At the same time, crises in the business models of commercial media industries and the proliferation of online distribution have made ?mainstream? increasingly difficult to define."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction: a short history of 'selling out'

2. Margins and mainstreams: historical curiosities?

3. Indie music: the business of bands

4. Subcultural design: wearing our art on our sleeves

5. Fringe comedy: pranking prime time

6. Alternative acreens: post-broadcast Indie drama

7. DIY games: Indie is the new normal

8. Conclusion: after Indie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501334894

1501334891

9781501334900

1501334905

9781501334917

1501334913

OCLC:

1238133798