Olivier Alexandre

Olivier Alexandre is a doctor from the School in Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS Paris). His Phd thesis, published in 2015 ( The rule of exception. The ecology of French cinema , Éditions de l'EHESS, 2015), deals with the French movie industry organization and the cultural exception model, focusing on the role and the importance of authorship.

Then, Olivier studied emblematic French festivals (the Cannes film festival, The Avignon theater festival, the Transmusicales) and digital transformations of cultural industries. Afterward, as postdoctoral researcher (Labex Icca), he worked on the independent sector in arts and culture, coediting a book with Sophie Noël and Aurélie Pinto covering its social, economic and historical aspects (Culture and independence, Peter Lang, 2017). Then, he explored the issues of critics activity and living conditions based on a Cahiers du cinema ethnographic study ( La sainte famille des Cahiers du cinema. La critique contre elle-soi , Vrin, 2018).

Education

• Doctorat EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2006 — 2012)
• Northwestern University

Companies

• Adjunct Professor Sciences Po (2018)
• Research Fellow CNRS (2017)
• Research Associate EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2014 — 2017)
• Visiting Scholar Stanford University (2015 — 2016)
• Research Associate Labex Icca (2015 — 2016)
• Associate Professor Université d'Avignon, UMR Espace (2012 — 2015)
• Senior Research Fellow université paris sorbonne nouvelle (2015 — 2015)
• Visiting Research Scholar Northwestern University (2011 — 2012)
• Lecturer School for Advanced Studies in Social Research (EHESS) (2010 — 2011)

Research Topics

• Entrepreneurship and digital industries
• Cinema and cultural industries
• Sociology of creative activities