Joshua N. Azriel Restricting Los Angeles Paparazzi

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Restricting Los Angeles Paparazzi: California's Legal Efforts Impacting Free Press Rights is a detailed analysis of Californias anti-paparazzi laws aimed at protecting celebrities privacy. Joshua N. Azriel provides an ethnographic, First Amendment-based critique of the states 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.