Listen "Episode 39: Professor Vanessa Diaz on the celebrity news machine"
Episode Synopsis
Celebrity culture thrives on granting us vicarious access to our favorite stars. But rarely on display are the paparazzi and reporters whose hidden labor makes the story happen. In "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood", anthropologist Dr. Vanessa Díaz brings us inside the world celebrity media production and reveals the complex racial and gendered power relations at play in the production of fame. On this episode, we are joined by Diaz, an interdisciplinary ethnographer, filmmaker, journalist & Assistant Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
Learn more about Vanessa's research & book here https://manufacturingcelebritybook.com
Learn more about Vanessa's research & book here https://manufacturingcelebritybook.com
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