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The Confessor: Oprah Winfrey, James Frey and the Spectacular Logic of Contemporary Confession

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dc.contributor.authorCrawley, Karen
dc.contributor.authorManderson, Desmond
dc.contributor.editorPeters, Timothy D.
dc.contributor.editorCrawley, Karen
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-05T00:24:39Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-11-25T07:28:04Z
dc.description.abstractThis chapter analyses the scandal over James Frey’s fabrication of the truth in his supposed memoir A Million Little Pieces in relation to Oprah Winfrey and her Book Club in order to reveal the ‘double helix’ of contemporary confession: the external, public dimension pertaining to the content of confession, which reaffirms prevailing social ideology and the internal, affective dimension which ‘disciplines the bodies and souls’ of individuals. The successive confessions outlined in this chapter manifest the connection between confession’s external and internal dimensions as well as the anxiety provoked by their apparent unraveling - an anxiety that can only be meaningfully assuaged by Oprah re-inscribing the viewer in the scene as confessor.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-138-12376-2en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/201150
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherRoutledge, Londonen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofEnvisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representationen_AU
dc.relation.isversionof1 Edition
dc.rights© 2018 the contributorsen_AU
dc.titleThe Confessor: Oprah Winfrey, James Frey and the Spectacular Logic of Contemporary Confessionen_AU
dc.typeBook chapteren_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage180en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationLondon United Kingdom
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage161en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCrawley, Karen, Griffith Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationManderson, Desmond, ANU College of Law, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidManderson, Desmond, u1517515en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor180122 - Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretationen_AU
local.identifier.absfor200212 - Screen and Media Cultureen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970119 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writingen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970118 - Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studiesen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu1444330xPUB2en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315648637-8en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.routledge.comen_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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