16. Unbundling Precarious Creativity in China: “Knowing-How” and “Knowing-To”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. 1. Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor 1
6. 2. Cybertarian Flexibility—When Prosumers Join the Cognitariat, All That Is Scholarship Melts into Air 19
7. 3. Spec World, Craft World, Brand World 33
8. 4. Film/City: Cinema, Affect, and Immaterial Labor in Urban India 49
9. 5. The Production of Extras in a Precarious Creative Economy 63
10. 6. Talent Agenting in the Age of Conglomerates 74
11. 7. Transnational Crews and Postsocialist Precarity: Globalizing Screen Media Labor in Prague 88
12. 8. The Cost of Business: Gender Dynamics of Media Labor in Afghanistan 104
13. 9. “No One Thinks in Hindi Here”: Language Hierarchies in Bollywood 118
14. 10. Complex Labor Relations in Latin American Television Industries 132
15. 11. Labor in Lagos: Alternative Global Networks 146
16. 12. Creative Precarity in the Adult Film Industry 159
17. 13. Strategies for Success? Navigating Hollywood’s “Postracial” Labor Practices 172
18. 14. Games Production in Australia: Adapting to Precariousness 186
19. 15. Redefining Creative Labor: East Asian Comparisons 200
20. 16. Unbundling Precarious Creativity in China: “Knowing-How” and “Knowing-To” 215
21. 17. Revolutionary Creative Labor 231
22. 18. Precarious Diversity: Representation and Demography 241
23. 19. The Precarity and Politics of Media Advocacy Work 254
24. 20. Internationalizing Labor Activism: Building Solidarity among Writers’ Guilds 267
25. References 281
26. Notes on Contributors 299
27. Index 305