Restricting Los Angeles Paparazzi: Californias Legal Efforts Impacting Free Press Rights is a detailed analysis of California's anti-paparazzi laws aimed at protecting celebrities' privacy. Joshua N. Azriel provides an ethnographic, First Amendment-based critique of the state's privacy and anti-harassment laws and discusses the broader implications of these laws on free press rights. Azriel conducted fieldwork acting as a paparazzo taking photos of celebrities and interviewed paparazzi directly about whether they comply with the laws, providing readers with insight into the challenges and ethics of the paparazzi industry and firsthand perspectives of photographers in the field. Scholars of media studies, legal studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

Joshua N. Azriel is professor of journalism and emerging media at Kennesaw State University.

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Paparazzi and Celebrity Worlds

Chapter 2: Paparazzi as Journalists

Chapter 3: California Laws Protecting Celebrities Privacy

Chapter 4: Interviews with Paparazzi About Californias Privacy and Anti-Harassment Laws

Chapter 5: Professional Life as a Paparazzo

Chapter 6: The Constitutional Dangers in Censoring Paparazzi

Bibliography

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