Paris, not France and the Dialogic World of the Celebrity

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Jessica Hutchison

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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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