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Cultural Identity Re-created: The Influence of Cultural Industries and Their Position in the Cultural Policies of Southeastern European States

This work presents the intercorrelations between the spheres of cultural identities, cultural industries and cultural policies in the area of Southeastern Europe. The region of SEE in this work covers the following countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Serbia-Montenegro. The main line of thought is that cultural industries are seen as points of identity making. The work focuses on the creation of (national) cultural industries and the ways the cultural policies of the countries in question are assisting in their development, together with the ways in which this is reflected in the construction of the elements of cultural identity of the SEE countries. After giving a brief history of the concept of cultural industries and its connection to other concepts of creative industries, an examination of the term cultural identities is presented. What follows afterwards is the assessment of the situation of culture industries in the region of SEE and its connection with the re-creation of elements of cultural identity. The content analysis of movie industry in the 1990s Croatia gives insights into the elements of new cultural identity, and the connection to cultural policy is questioned in the analysis. The concluding remarks stress the connection between cultural industries and cultural identities, but the relation between cultural policies and cultural identities is put to question.

cultural industries; cultural policy; cultural identity; Southeastern Europe

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