The entertainment function of cultural industry mainly refers to letting people relax, exercise and exchange feelings through cultural products and cultural activities. The educational function of cultural industry mainly refers to that people are influenced by mainstream concepts and behavioral norms when they consume, use and enjoy cultural products and activities, and form correct value judgments and concepts such as right and wrong, right and wrong, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, true and false, good and bad.
In many countries, the educational function of cultural industry is also reflected in safeguarding political party opinions, national security, social stability, national unity, religious authority and so on. Entertainment function and education function are both important functions of cultural industry. Without the entertainment function, cultural products will not be popularized and enriched, and the development of cultural industries will lose momentum; Without the educational function, the cultural industry will have no spiritual and value support, and it will become a rootless tree. To promote the sustained and healthy development of cultural industry, we should adhere to the organic unity of entertainment function and education function.
Economic benefits:
If cultural products and services are unpopular in the market, economic value cannot be realized and social benefits cannot be discussed. This requires the providers of cultural products and cultural services to follow the creation rules of spiritual and cultural products and the operation rules of market economy, and strive to create and produce more works and products that can not only reflect the diverse and multi-level spiritual and cultural needs of the masses, but also reflect mainstream values and produce good economic and social benefits.
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social context
The concept of creative industry has a great historical background: first, developed countries in Europe and America have completed industrialization and started to transform into service industries and high value-added manufacturing industries. On the one hand, they have transferred some rough machining industries and heavy industry production to low-cost developing countries. On the other hand, many old industries and cities in their country have declined, and there is a realistic need for economic transformation at this time.
Secondly, in the 1960s, large-scale social movements appeared in Europe and America, and subculture, popular culture, social thoughts and so on all surged, which had a great impact on the traditional industrial social structure. People pay more attention to differences, oppose mainstream culture, and publicize personality liberation. They gradually began to recognize the multi-culture that was generally regarded as weird before, and the social culture became more diverse, forming an atmosphere conducive to giving full play to individual creativity.
Third, the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan after they came to power in 1980s encouraged privatization and free competition. Enterprises and individuals must innovate and differentiate in order to own the market, which also stimulates the development of creative industries. In this context, creative industries are constantly sprouting and developing in western developed countries. As far as the world is concerned, the cultural industry in the United States is the most developed, and it accounts for a very large proportion in its domestic GDP.
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Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cultural and Creative Industries