Vanessa Díaz

Manufacturing Celebrity

Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photographers, journalists, publicists, magazine editors, and celebrities, Vanessa Díaz traces the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary Hollywood and American celebrity culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781478009436
• ISBN-10: 1478009438
• Artikelnr.: 58026585

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Díaz is Assistant Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. The Precarious Work of Celebrity Media Production  1
I. Pappin' Ain't Easy
1. Shooteando: The Real Paparazzi of Los Angeles  33
2. Latinos Selling Celebrity: Economies and Ethics of Paparazzi Work  76
3. To Live and Die in L.A.: Life, Death, and Labor in the
Hollywood-Industrial Complex  95
II. Reporting on the Stars
4. Red Carpet Rituals: Positionality and Power in a Serveilled Space  125
5. Where Reporting Happens: Precarious Spaces and the Exploitation of Women
Reporters  150
III. Crafting the Media and the Sociocultural Consequences
6. Body Teams, Baby Bumps, Beauty Standards  181
7. "Brad and Angelina: And Now . . . Brangelina!": The Cultural Economy of
(White) Heterosexual Love  218
Conclusion. Reconsidering News and Gossip in the Trump Era  242
Appendix: Interview Sources  251
Notes  255
Bibliography  271
Index  301