Oprah, Celebrity and Formations of Self

Wilson, Sherryl

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“…As a genre with confessional values, the TV talk show has blurred the private and public spheres by commodifying peoples' experiences, biographies, pains, and struggles (Wilson, 2003). Sayan, by using her past and interacting with other people on her talk shows and TV series, aims to close the gap between her celebrity persona and the person behind it.…”

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“…Although Sayan has made a great fortune in her 30-year career, she also maintains the perception of being 'one of us'. Richard Dyer's paradox of stars being both ordinary and extraordinary can be explained, according to Wilson, by the audience perception of celebrities as people with extraordinary wealth, but who remain untransformed by this (Dyer 1998, Wilson 2003. Sayan herself claims 'I have not changed, I am always the same.…”

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Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey

Acar

2022

Celebrity Studies

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Since the beginning of her career in the 1980s, Seda Sayan has become one of the biggest popular culture icons in Turkey, sustaining a multifaceted career in entertainment that includes singing, acting, and, most influentially, television. Sayan's career trajectory from wedding singer to the 'Sultan of the Mornings' illustrates how the Turkish celebrity industry works, and the evolution of her persona as a talk show host tracks the development of the genre format in Turkey. This article considers Seda Sayan's daytime talk shows in order to better understand how she built her televisual empire among strong competition to become an exceptional force in Turkish television history. Her shows illustrate identity construction practices over time and have secured her place in Turkish entertainment. Taking this chapter in Sayan's career as its case study, this article offers a brief introduction to the operations of celebrity culture and contemporary media industries in Turkey.

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Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey

Acar

2022

Celebrity Studies

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“…Her interviewing style, which made her famous and broadly likeable, departed from the professional distance of others to the sharing of confessions about weight problems, love life and sexual abuse with her interviewees, to the point that she has created a new media style called "rapport talk" (instead of "report talk"). Plummer (1995) argues that Oprah's appeal lies in the witnesses' feelings of not being judged, although her 'confessional style' enacts, after all, a power relation where the person who confesses is at the 'mercy' of the interlocutor who mediates, comforts, advices, and appeases (Foucault, 1978;Wilson, 2003;King, 2008). In this regard, her approach cannot be considered as conducive to a form of ethical witnessing.…”

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Time’s Up, celebrities and the transformation of gender violence paradigms: The case of Oprah Winfrey’s Speech at the Golden Globes (2018)

García

Nicolau

2018

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In this paper we assess to what extent Oprah Winfrey's speech during the Golden Globes 2018, situated in the new context of the #MeToo movement and the Time's Up initiative, destabilizes the modes of recognition of gender violence, offering an example of the operationalization of the concept of 'ethical witnessing' in communication media brought about by celebrities. In order to do so we consider the connections she establishes between the fight for rights and other fights for recognition, redistribution and participation; the degree of transgression of the reified models of identification of the subjectvictim and the focus on the capacity of agency; and the type of relationship that develops between the subject who gives testimony and the witness. The paper concludes that Oprah's intersectional approach to gender violence, her focus on agency and resistance (verging on heroism), her role as both witness of her own victimization and facilitator of others' testimonies, and her activism and inspiration for others to engage socially and politically, comes close to transgressing the boundaries of the current mode of recognition and representation of gender violence. Nevertheless, the widely accepted image of Oprah as an authority assumes a hierarchical relation that contravenes an ethical dimension of witnessing. In addition, in line with a liberal position, Oprah reimagines the 'good victim' as an empowered individual who overcomes vulnerability, and she envisions the eradication of gender inequality as something that comes from the top down.[es] Time's Up, celebridades y la transformación del paradigma de la violencia de género: el caso del discurso de Oprah Winfrey en los Globos de Oro (2018) Resumen. En este trabajo evaluamos hasta qué punto el discurso de Oprah Winfrey durante los Golden Globes 2018, ubicado en el nuevo contexto del movimiento #MeToo y la iniciativa Time's Up, desestabiliza los modos de reconocimiento de la violencia de género, ofreciendo un ejemplo de operacionalización del concepto de 'testimonio ético' aplicado a la acción de celebridades en los medios de comunicación. Para hacerlo, consideramos las conexiones que se establecen entre la lucha por los derechos de las mujeres y otras luchas por el reconocimiento, la redistribución y la participación; el 1 This article is part of the project La re-significación de la mujer-víctima en la cultura popular: Implicaciones para la innovación representacional en la construcción de la vulnerabilidad y la resistencia [The re-signification of woman as victim in popular culture: implications towards representational innovation in the construction of vulnerability and resistance] (FEM2015-65834-C2-2-P, MINECO-FEDER), funded by Spain's Ministery of Economy and Competitivity. We would like to express our gratitude to Drs. Zeynep Kiliç, Dr. Dayna DeFeo and Patrick Dulin for their invaluable feedback and support, and to Dr. María José Gámez Fuentes for her constant inspiration. We also appreciate the blind reviewers for their thoughtful comments.

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“…While the connection between television talk shows and the conditions of neoliberalism has been made explicit (see, for example, Peck, 2008), it is through the personality of the host that these shows are differentiated (Wilson, 2003) – and so each different host will illuminate different and specific connections. Marsh and Bishop (2014) argue that Kyle’s approach to hosting his show is almost that of a judge in a people’s court – which is both perceptive and in need of further attention.…”

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Class, trust and confessional media in Austerity Britain

Hill

2015

Media, Culture & Society

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This article situates The Jeremy Kyle Show, a television talk show broadcast in the United Kingdom, in wider narratives of austerity politics in order to explore the reinforcement and legitimation through reality television of neoliberal measures for economic crisis management. In the first section, it is argued that technologies of confession -lie detectors, paternity tests, drug testing -are used on guests who are deemed, by virtue of class position, to be untrustworthy, undermining the very basis of therapeutic talk by deferring to scientific measurement of the body in order to derive truths. In the second section, it is argued that this measurement does not simply identify bodily truths but locates bodies that lack the discipline to contribute efficiently to the austerity agenda, providing a platform for shaming that amounts to an attack on the welfare state. This article introduces austerity television, and the austerity realism that it promotes, as an important area of study in the humanities and social sciences.The Jeremy Kyle Show first aired in the United Kingdom in 2005. Scheduled in the daytime television slot previously occupied by Trisha on ITV between 9.25 and 10.30 in the morning, although repeated across ITV's portfolio of channels at various times, day and night, it adopts a confrontational talk show format that would be familiar to a global audience; although there are some notable dissimilarities (to be discussed), the show is comparable to Oprah, Ricki Lake, The Jerry Springer Show, Trisha, El Show de Cristina and

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Oprah, Celebrity and Formations of Self

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Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey

Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey

Time’s Up, celebrities and the transformation of gender violence paradigms: The case of Oprah Winfrey’s Speech at the Golden Globes (2018)

Class, trust and confessional media in Austerity Britain

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