Another way of “amusing ourselves to death”? Experience, ideological fantasy, and labor control in variety entertainment production

Abstract Compared with traditional industries, new changes have taken place in the labor process and manufacturing consent in cultural and creative industries. In entertainment labor, managers transform high-intensity labor into pleasant entertainment through relational work, emotional work, and sen...

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Main Authors: Wenjuan Jia, Kaiou Zhong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-08-01
Series:The Journal of Chinese Sociology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40711-020-00127-6