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Who will fix it for us? Toxic celebrity and the therapeutic dynamics of media culture
Celebrity Studies ( IF 1.167 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2020.1704383
Caroline Bainbridge 1
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ABSTRACT The exposé of Jimmy Savile’s perpetration of heinous abuse over many decades enables new understandings of the links between mediatised celebrity and affective experience. The much hallowed ‘national treasure’ status accorded to Savile during his lifetime was violently overturned following the disclosure of hitherto disavowed documentary evidence, leading to the desecration of his reputation and memory. Savile’s toxic rendition of celebrity has subsequently given rise to popular cultural narratives based on the scandal, most notably the acclaimed television drama, National Treasure. This article explores the media processes shaping and responding to the desecration of Savile’s celebrity, and suggests that there is a therapeutic quality at play. Operating over time at representational, affective and formal levels, popular and critical re-mediations of the scandal provide important outlets for unconscious emotional experience, creating space for resisting dominant narratives that contrive to shape celebrity as somehow ‘untouchable’. They provide a valuable means of grappling with painful experience, allowing it to surface and be worked through. Using Savile as a case study, I argue that the entanglement between mediatisation and celebrity culture creates important psychological space in which to make sense of affective experience. I further draw on object relations psychoanalysis to examine the containing and reparative dimensions of popular culture exemplified by National Treasure.

中文翻译:

谁来为我们修复它?毒性名人与媒体文化的治疗动态

摘要吉米·萨维尔(Jimmy Savile)几十年来对令人发指的虐待行为的揭露,使人们对中介名人与情感体验之间的联系有了新的认识。在公开迄今被拒绝的文献证据后,萨维尔在他一生中享有的崇高的“国宝”地位被猛烈推翻,导致对他的声誉和记忆力的亵渎。萨维尔(Savile)对名人的有毒演绎随后引起了基于丑闻的流行文化叙事,其中最著名的就是电视剧《国宝》。本文探讨了塑造和回应萨维尔名人受到亵渎的媒体过程,并提出了一种治疗作用。随着时间的流逝在代表性,情感和形式层面上运作,丑闻的流行和批判性补救措施为无意识的情感体验提供了重要的出路,为抵制那些试图塑造名人以某种方式“无法触及”的占主导地位的叙事创造了空间。他们提供了一种宝贵的方法来解决痛苦的经历,使它浮出水面并得到解决。我以萨维尔为案例研究,认为中介化与名人文化之间的纠缠创造了重要的心理空间,在其中可以理解情感体验。我进一步利用客体关系心理分析来研究以国宝为代表的流行文化的包含性和修复性。为抵制那些试图塑造名人以某种方式“无法触及”的主流叙事创造空间。他们提供了一种宝贵的方法来解决痛苦的经历,使它浮出水面并得到解决。我以萨维尔为案例研究,认为中介化与名人文化之间的纠缠创造了重要的心理空间,在其中可以理解情感体验。我进一步利用客体关系心理分析来研究以国宝为代表的流行文化的包含性和修复性。为抵制那些试图塑造名人以某种方式“无法触及”的主流叙事创造空间。他们提供了一种宝贵的方法来解决痛苦的经历,使它浮出水面并得到解决。我以萨维尔为案例研究,认为中介化与名人文化之间的纠缠创造了重要的心理空间,在其中可以理解情感体验。我进一步利用客体关系心理分析来研究以国宝为代表的流行文化的包含性和修复性。我认为,中介化与名人文化之间的纠缠创造了重要的心理空间,在其中可以理解情感体验。我进一步利用客体关系心理分析来研究以国宝为代表的流行文化的包含性和修复性。我认为,中介化与名人文化之间的纠缠创造了重要的心理空间,在其中可以理解情感体验。我进一步利用客体关系心理分析来研究以国宝为代表的流行文化的包含性和修复性。
更新日期:2020-01-02
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