Exploring professional human brand identity through cultural and social capital: a typology of film director identities |
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Authors: | Camille Pluntz Bernard Pras |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Marketing, ISG International Business School , Paris, France camille.pluntz@isg.fr;3. Department of Marketing, Université Paris Dauphine (DRM-UMR CNRS 7088, PSL University) and ESSEC Business School , Paris, France |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT Our research focuses on film director human brands. It addresses the issue of human brand identity construction through the social valuation of identity attributes linked to cultural capital. Based on Bourdieu’s theory of cultural and social capital, we examine the identity attributes on which human brand identities are built through the acquisition of legitimacy. We conduct a qualitative study combining three context levels of analysis (external, internal and individual). Our results reveal the existence of four human brand identity types (i.e. chameleon conformist, niche archetypecast, mass archetypecast, cultural influencer), thus enriching and extending previous research. Each identity type is characterised by a set of culturally valued identity attributes, associated with legitimacies – specific, bourgeois, popular and institutional – bestowed by human brand constituencies. |
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Keywords: | Professional human brand identity cultural and social capital legitimacy identity attributes cultural relevance auteurism film directors |
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