What Emily in Paris reveals about power and control in creative work
A new analysis of Netflix's Emily in Paris uses existentialist philosophy to decode how creative professionals navigate hierarchy and technology at work. The findings highlight overlooked tensions between individual ambition and organizational control that shape modern cultural industries—insights relevant to anyone managing or studying creative workforces.
Originaltitel: Cultural entrepreneurship in fashion: Insights from an existentialist reading of Emily in Paris
<p>The Netflix rom-com series Emily in Paris revolves around Emily Cooper, who has been assigned by her Chicago-based employer to work for Savoir, a subsidiary marketing agency in Paris. In this paper, Emily in Paris is approached as a showcase of cultural entrepreneurship, and the existentialist reading of the series reveals a distinct symbolic universe that harbours the characters’ existential conundrums as they organize themselves and others in the course of their everyday lives. The revelation of this symbolic universe, it is argued, adds to the conversation about cultural entrepreneurship issues of power/resistance, management hierarchies, and technology.</p>