Frontmatter -- 1. Towards a Sociology of Culture: The Corporations of Culture and the Production and Circulation of Cultural Commodities -- 2. The Contradictions of the Cultural Commodity -- 3. The Production and Circulation of Cultural Commodities: A Sectoral Analysis of the Culture Industry -- 4. The Corporate Organisation of Cultural Production: The Creative Stage and the Project Team -- 5. Rationalising the Creative Stage of Production: The Formatting of Creativity -- 6. Rationalising the Cultural Marketplace: The Marketing of Cultural Commodities and the Making of Stars and Styles -- 7. Rationalising the Cultural Marketplace: The Publicity Complex and the Cycles of Fashion -- 8. A Postscript -- References -- Index