1. Towards a Sociology of Culture: The Corporations of Culture and the Production and Circulation of Cultural Commodities -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Methodological Considerations -- 1.3 The Corporate Form of Capitalist Cultural Commodity Production -- 2 The Contradictions of the Cultural Commodity -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Contradiction and the Culture Industry -- 2.3 The Social Constitution of Art and the Artist and Residues in the Culture Industry -- 2.4 The Contradictions of the Artist-Capitalist Relation -- 2.5 The Contradictions of the Cultural Commodity -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 The Production and Circulation of Cultural Commodities: A Sectoral Analysis of the Culture Industry -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Commodities, Realisation, Marketing and Publicity -- 3.3 Types of Cultural Commodities, Their Systems of Circulation and Relations of Distribution -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 The Corporate Organisation of Cultural Production: The Creative Stage and the Project Team -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Accumulation and the Capitalist Labour Process -- 4.3 The Organisation of Corporate Cultural Commodity Production -- 4.4 Labour Organisation in the Creative Stage of Production -- 4.5 Production Relations in the Creative Stage -- 4.6 Conclusion: -- 5 Rationalising the Creative Stage of Production: The Formatting of Creativity -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Bureaucratisation of the Workplace in the Corporate Era of Capital -- 5.3 Corporate Control in the Creative Stage of Production -- 5.4 Formatting the Creative Stage of Production -- 5.5 Formatting As a System of Creative Control -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6 Rationalising the Cultural Marketplace: The Marketing of Cultural Commodities and the Making of Stars and Styles -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Marketing: Culture at the Service of Capital -- 6.3 Marketing Cultural Commodities: The Making of Stars and Styles.

6.4 The Determinant Effects in Production of Marketing Cultural Commodities: Commercialism and Formatting -- 6.5 Conclusion -- 7 Rationalising the Cultural Marketplace: The Publicity Complex and the Cycles of Fashion -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Publicising Stars and Styles: The Circulation of Cultural Commodities and the Publicity Complex -- 7.3 The Institutionalisation of the Publicist and Its Consequences -- 7.4 Conclusion: -- 8 A Postscript -- 8.1 A Sociology of Culture -- 8.2 The Ideology Problematic and Textual Analysis -- References -- Index.