Contract and Control in the Entertainment Industry: Dancing on the Edge of Heaven

by Steve Greenfield, Guy Osborn

Overview

This book examines the contractual relationships of creative artists within a number of areas of the entertainment industry. Whilst it focuses specifically on football, cricket, boxing and music, developments within other parts of the entertainment business are observed. The book also charts the concessions (artistic, professional and personal) that are often made by such artists in an attempt to achieve success and the consequent legal problems that may arise from their working relationships. Embracing historical materials and current legal practices, Contract and Control in the Entertainment Industry will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of law, sociology and cultural studies. It will also appeal to anyone who is interested in seeing how many areas of the entertainment industry have placed very restrictive contractual controls on the raw materials of the industry - the creative artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351948852
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/05/2016
Series:	Studies in Modern Law and Policy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Steve Greenfield, Guy Osborn

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Of human bondage. Entertainment, Control and Contestation: Selling soles, contract and control in football; Rough trade, contract and control in the music industry; A brutal aesthetic, contract and control in boxing; Circus games, contract and control in cricket. Conclusion: Into the holy of holies.

Editorial Reviews

Examines the contractual relationships of creative artists in the British entertainment industry, focusing on soccer, cricket, boxing, and music, but also noting developments in other areas. Charts the artistic, professional, and personal concessions that artists often make trying to achieve success, and the legal implications that may exist within their working relationships. Primarily addressed to law scholars, but also alerts lay readers on the very restrictive contractual controls many fields of entertainment have placed on the creativity that is their raw material. Developed from a paper delivered at a March 1993 conference in Exeter, England. No subject index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

’...a welcome and necessary addition to the study of popular culture.’ Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

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