Taking the Extra out of the Extraordinary: Paparazzi photography as an online celebrity news genre
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Taking the Extra out of the Extraordinary : Paparazzi photography as an online celebrity news genre. / Jerslev, Anne; Mortensen, Mette.
In: International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 17, No. 6, 01.11.2014, p. 619-636.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Taking the Extra out of the Extraordinary
T2 - Paparazzi photography as an online celebrity news genre
AU - Jerslev, Anne
AU - Mortensen, Mette
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - Paparazzi photography presently constitutes the largest genre of visual celebrity news on the internet along with red carpet photography. With the emergence of digital media, this genre has moved towards the centre of mainstream news and entertainment culture, and the content has undergone a significant transformation. Trademark paparazzi photographs used to be depictions of celebrities deviating from prevailing norms of proper conduct by exhibiting bodily excess and/or transgressing social or moral codes. By contrast, a content analysis conducted for this article shows that snapshots of famous people engaged in insignificant everyday activities hold by far the largest share of today’s insatiable digital, globalized and commercialized market for news pictures of celebrities off-duty. Re-examining the well-known theorization of the tension between the ordinary and extraordinary in celebrity culture studies, this article thus investigates the following research question: How is the ordinary represented in paparazzi photographs as a genre of visual celebrity news in the current, digital media landscape?
AB - Paparazzi photography presently constitutes the largest genre of visual celebrity news on the internet along with red carpet photography. With the emergence of digital media, this genre has moved towards the centre of mainstream news and entertainment culture, and the content has undergone a significant transformation. Trademark paparazzi photographs used to be depictions of celebrities deviating from prevailing norms of proper conduct by exhibiting bodily excess and/or transgressing social or moral codes. By contrast, a content analysis conducted for this article shows that snapshots of famous people engaged in insignificant everyday activities hold by far the largest share of today’s insatiable digital, globalized and commercialized market for news pictures of celebrities off-duty. Re-examining the well-known theorization of the tension between the ordinary and extraordinary in celebrity culture studies, this article thus investigates the following research question: How is the ordinary represented in paparazzi photographs as a genre of visual celebrity news in the current, digital media landscape?
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - celebrity culture the everyday middle region private-ness online celebrity news the ordinary and the extraordinary paparazzi photography
KW - celebrity culture the everyday middle region private-ness online celebrity news the ordinary and the extraordinary paparazzi photography
U2 - 10.1177/1367877913503425
DO - 10.1177/1367877913503425
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 619
EP - 636
JO - International Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - International Journal of Cultural Studies
SN - 1367-8779
IS - 6
ER -
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