New Book: Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry

I’m delighted to announce the second book from the BA (Hons) Entertainment Management  team at Leeds Metropolitan University: Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry – edited by Dr Ben Walmsley. This will be the first and only book on contemporary issues, which covers the arts and entertainment sectors, from social networking and Twitter, to reality TV and digital rights management. Each chapter has been written by internationally renowned academics and practitioners in the field from world-class organisations. The study of arts and entertainment management is rapidly increasing all over the world. Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry offers a unique addition to the literature by taking an international perspective on the contemporary issues in these rapidly expanding sectors. With an experienced contributing team comprising subject experts from world-class academic and industry-based organisations, this new book covers every major sector of the arts and entertainment industry using up-to-date case studies from all over the world, it provides an in-depth critical analysis of hot topics and controversial contemporary issues.Divided into 12 chapters for easy semester teaching, each chapter includes an illustrative case study to encourage students to apply their academic learning to real, work-based scenarios.Chapter titles are as follows:·         The audience experience: changing roles and relationships·         The 21st Century business model·         Funding with a new agenda·         Branding the arts & entertainment·         Intellectual property in the digital age·         Assessing the value of the arts·         The 21st Century Venue·         The rise of home entertainment·         The future of broadcasting ·         Cultural entrepreneurs·         Cultural leadership·         Responsible entertainment

The Entertainment Industry: An Introduction - NEW Text Book Now Published by CABI

I am delighted to announce that 16 months hard work has now come to fruition with the creation of a new Entertainment Industry text book. The book entitled 'The Entertainment Industry: An Introduction' is designed to help plug a current gap in the market with regards to up-to-date academic texts around the entertainment industry. It profiles in-depth 18 distinct sectors of the entertainment industry, looking at: history and background; contemporary issues; organisational case studies; and predicted future trends for each sector. The entertainment industry sectors covered within the book are: staged story and variety; music; bars, pubs and clubs; cinema and film; broadcast media; audio-visual media; the Internet; gaming; printed media; commercial gambling; spectator sports; thrillertainment; edutainment; sellertainment; culturtainment; spiritual entertainment; health entertainment; and adult entertainment.
I am both editor and lead author for the book. My present work role is that of Senior Lecturer and Teacher Fellow within the Centre for Research & Education in Entertainment & Arts Management (CREEAM) at Leeds Metropolitan University. CREEAM colleague Ben Walmsley has also contributed the second chapter of the book on 'staged story and variety'. Due to the very diverse nature of the entertainment industry, the book required a broad range of academic expertise, and additionally features a host of other Leeds Met contributors, as well as academics from other UK universities, Germany, India and New Zealand.