Paris, not France and the Dialogic World of the Celebrity
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This paper uses Mikhail Bakhtin’s interventions on performance theory to analyze the 2008 documentary “Paris, not France.” From this framework, the paper argues that the celebrity persona(e) of Paris Hilton is a dialogically constructed entity, informed by internal and external voices.
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Hutchison, Jessica. 2017. “Paris, Not France and the Dialogic World of the Celebrity”. Radicle: Reed Anthropology Review 2 (1). https://radiclejournal.org/index.php/rrar/article/view/34.
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Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1981. “Discourse in the Novel.” In The Dialogic Imagination. Translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Coombe, Rosemary J. 1992. “The Celebrity Image and Cultural Identity: Publicity Rights and the Subaltern Politics of Gender.” Discourse 14, no. 3: 59-88.
Paris, Not France. DVD. Directed by Adria Petty. New York: MTV, 2008.
Piazza, Jo. 2009. “Why Has Paris Hilton Disappeared?” CNN.com. December 5.
Prentice, Deborah A., and Erica Carranza. 2002. “What Women and Men Should Be, Shouldn't Be, Are Allowed to Be, and Don't Have to Be: The Contents of Prescriptive Gender Stereotypes.” Psychology of Women Quarterly 26: 269-281.
Stegemoeller, Kristen. 2016. “Pop Culture Died in 2009: This Tumblr Revisits the Shame and the Glory of ‘00s Celebrity Gossip.” Paper. February 10.
Tolson, Andrew. 2001. “ ‘Being Yourself’: the pursuit of the authentic celebrity.” Discourse Studies 3, no. 4: 443-457.
Van Borsel, John, Joke Janssens, and Marc De Bodt. 2007. “Breathiness as a Feminine Voice Characteristic: A Perceptual Approach.” Journal of Voice 23, no.3: 291-294.
Vena, Jocelyn. 2009. “ ‘Paris, not France’ Aims to Reveal the Real Paris Hilton.” MTV news. July 28.
Wolk, Lesley, Nassima B. Abdelli-Beruh, and Dianne Selvin. 2012. “Habital Use of Vocal Fry in Young Adult Female Speakers.” Journal of Voice 26, no.3: e111-e116.
Yuasa, Ikuko Patricia. 2010. “Creaky Voice: A New Feminine Voice Quality for Urban-Oriented Upwardly Mobile Women?” American Speech 85, no.3: 315-337.