Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections

N Member message and newspapers, Sarah Churchell, says the link between the text of life and the expression of famous title. The link between both of these, suggests obviously to be discussed "accounts that is being used for nothing to do anything (O'Brien and Rich2015). Be that as it may, Churchwell's statement seems to be correct in terms of biographical texts, biographies, and autobiographies, especially when one considers the historical roots of biography and hagiography and how biographies later drew on the long tradition of presenting a famous "model" living in the Carlylian literature of the history of one person. graphic treatment across different media, as well as biographies in their written form and different types of media - whether (auto) biography, memoir, biography, painting, film or documentary - are also among the main vehicles in shaping celebrity status.

Although the text of life and fame are clearly connected as a cultural and moral event, making each other a discussion and economy, the different aspects of the research that they have given contradict each other in at least one aspect: the biographers have long been interviewed and deconstructed fame as the basis of biographical "value", starting with Virginia Woolf's famous critiquet in "Biography" anyone? as successful, humble and as an example? (Woolf 1981, 125).

This critical approach has come to the fore especially in women's studies and post-colonial life writing; and (auto)biographical analysis of "everyday life" that lacks cultural interest and media access dictated by the elite. On the other hand, the discipline of popular studies, based on fame, regardless of its short duration or the background it received. Level is his theme and raison d'être, therefore - when it comes to writing life - the principle of his choice.

That said, popular life opens up a lot of common ground for scholars of the two fields, revealing the two research methods that meet. In a comparative analysis of some recent metabiographical studies, for example, attention has been paid to the "representational-ideological agendas" (Ní Dhúill Citation 2012, 283) behind the different treatment of the life of a biographer (see also Churchwell Citation 2004), that is, the material used is the main study of different cultures and is included in the study of different cultures.

Even a brief analysis of life education and popular research provides a large pool of shared and frequent buzzwords that point to both areas 'many common concerns and notions of authenticity and intimacy; public and private; myth and revelation; cultural memory and identity politics. Both studies shed light on the underlying ambivalent emotions that underlie cultural interest in biographies and celebrities, from the desire for imitation and hero worship to the thirst for public mobilization and humanizing "dethronement".

What Hermione Lee has identified as "the religious desire for Latter-day Saints and heroes in society is getting stronger" (Citation2009, 18) Footnote3 is thus on the side of strong taste for the exclusion of special culture. This new practice is closely related to the activities of the common people and the media's (misleading) promise of achieving "self-celebrity" that is not only linked to traditional symbols of "greatness," such as value, talent, or achievement.

Just as "biography is the most important form of storytelling in our time" across art forms, media and genres (See Citation 2009, 17), today's celebrity must be seen as one of the most popular manifestations of the global media culture that affects almost every aspect of life. Therefore, it is not surprising that the study of life writing and popular studies has begun to separate into a dynamic and innovative field of interdisciplinary research in the humanities.

However, the close relationship between these two areas has only recently begun.As Michael DeAngelis and Mary Desjardins said at the beginning of the special issue edited by their guests recently on "Celebrity Biography/Biopic" for Celebrity Studies, "celebrity research rarely examines his biography - in terms of its structure, culture, center, ideology, and history - even as it serves as the first vehicle of scholars, experts 8" . Some scholars are doing some important work to address this critical lack of attention, two of whom are among those who contributed to the publication of this journal.

From a comprehensive perspective of history, Katja Lee, for example, has approached famous (auto) biographies as "a rich resource for the analysis of issues of identity and authenticity, systems of worshipers, and sites where cultural traditions and wealth are produced and consumed" (Lee Citation 2014, 87). Analyzing excerpts from the work of Ponce de Leon (Citation2002), Lee examines the portrayal of Canadian movie stars in popular magazines and periodicals of the early 20th century.

Oline Eaton, another contributor to this special issue and a biographer herself, has studied the representation, dissemination and integration of the biographies of female celebrities through popular literary genres (see Eaton Citation 2017). The genre of contemporary celebrity memoir and biography, which includes the promise of experiencing the celebrity's "real self" is central to Hannah Yelin's work. Clearly, her research has shed light on the role of ghostwriting and what it means for the construction of (female) identity and the concept of agency and authorship (see Yelin Citation 2016). In a recently published text book in the biographical series, Edward Saunders offers a stimulating perspective on several key connections and overlaps between academic and literary biography and literary stars.

The growing academic interest in the connection between life-writing and celebrity is also demonstrated by the program of the Oxford Center for Life-Writing (OCLW) at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, which in September 2015 hosted a discussion entitled 'After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity' (see O'Brien and Eaton Citation20). Since then, the Center has developed a new hot research thread dedicated to exploring the complex relationship between life writing and popular culture across history, media, genre and discipline.Hosting regular symposia, workshops, and panel discussions on a wide range of topics, including celebrity interviewing, life writing and female stardom, ghostwriting or literary stardom, and political personality, the strand aims to provide "a forum for more sustained dialogue between these two closely interconnected fields, highlighting opportunities for theoretical and methodological cross-fertilization"

We argue that celebrity studies could benefit significantly from incorporating some of the theoretical and methodological tools of life writing scholarship, allowing for more rigorous analysis of a set of forms that function as key drivers in celebratory processes. The celebrity status of the auto/biographical subject often determines whether their life is written and/or published and gives rise to multiple layers of cultural myths and ideological appropriation that can be difficult for the biographer to disentangle.

Therefore, it seems reasonable to suggest that focusing on the 'celebrity tool' itself, the media and production processes involved in the production and consumption of celebrities, can help scholars and biographers to escape the attraction of the celebrity, added myths and be more sensitive to the relationship between the company and the organizational system. In this case, useful insights can be gained from "anthropological studies", a peripheral research area that has gained popularity in recent years. He connects biographical and popular studies through his understanding of 'persona' as a system of identity formation, 'a form of negotiation of each individual within the collective world of society'.

The conflict between individual companies and investment in the organization of society across the social and political systems and culture, the media and the ideology in one form or another is analyzed through all the entries in this special issue.