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