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Performative Labor: An Ethnography on South Korea's Magazine Industry.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Performative Labor: An Ethnography on South Korea's Magazine Industry./
作者:	Chung, Vivien.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	258 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-05A.
標題:	Cultural anthropology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28768358
ISBN:	9798496528603

Performative Labor: An Ethnography on South Korea's Magazine Industry.
Chung, Vivien.

Performative Labor: An Ethnography on South Korea's Magazine Industry. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 258 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The belief that cultural goods are made by individuals with superior taste and skills has been central to the formation and reproduction of culture industries. In recent years, it has become ever more critical for workers to produce goods that are high in aesthetic and semiotic contents while continuously displaying their mastery in "creativity"-a phenomenon that has become particularly prevalent in the fashion industry. When workers are pressed to invest themselves in this additional labor, the fashion industry has become a winner-take-all market. Coining the concept "performative labor" to bring a semiotic perspective to the study on contemporary labor markets, this research illuminates the role presentation of self plays in the creative industry's operations. Centered on South Korea's "creative community," which takes great pride in its creative identity that sets members apart from rest of the nation, the dissertation takes an ethnographic approach to studying editorial production performed by magazine editors, photographers, makeup artists, and hairstylists, who claim to do the "real work (shilmu) of creativity." An analysis on the power dynamics among agents who inhabit different positions (e.g. full-time employees versus freelancers), including the same people in different contexts (e.g. editors at the publisher versus at photo shoots), illustrates how professionals vie for distinction, and, in the process, partake in the turnover of talent. A semiotic account reveals that individual and collective agencies are necessarily intertwined, challenging the myth of creative genius. The dissertation calls for greater attention to the politics of talent in the creative industries, and a further examination of creativity as both a contentious and collaborative process.

ISBN: 9798496528603Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Creative industries

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