Titlebook: Oprah, Celebrity and Formations of Self; Sherryl Wilson Book 2003 Sherryl Wilson 2003 anxiety.culture.nature.Persona.Self.television.media

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which confessional discourse works to produce a particular relationship between Oprah, her guests and the audience members are considered within the context of contemporary American culture.978-1-349-51301-7978-0-230-50536-0

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Introduction,hers. The words are spoken in response to a clip shown of a previous programme in which we see Winfrey1 in a tearful reunion with her 4th grade teacher, a woman who had been hugely influential for her young pupil. We learn that the teacher had been inspirational for Winfrey not only in fuelling the

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Confessional Discourse on ,ble means for understanding the construction of selfhood, and both are evident in .. In addition, each of these positions offers recognisable frameworks for the critical responses to the talk show genre in general and . in particular. It is this that explains the either/or dichotomy that characteris

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and Narrating the Self,he ways in which confessional discourse is deployed on ., and how consumerism, expressions of anxiety and fragmentation, and therapy all coexist with the pronouncements of self-reclamation and self-realisation that emerge from narrating one’s own story. I argued that Oprah operates through an interp

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The Oprah Persona,lf-realisation that forms the overarching meaning of the programme. In addition, I demonstrated how the version of self that is articulated is inextricably bound with significant others providing meaningful points of reference for the individual. My argument at the conclusion is that the show is a h

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Conclusion,abled an analysis of Oprah’s celebrity persona and of her significance to viewers. In particular, I have focused on the representations of selfhood and explored the ways in which self is constructed through the programme. My central questions have concerned what version(s) of selfhood are serially r