The overarching aim of this thesis is to dissect the production and consumption of the trainwreck archetype in order to illuminate our voyeuristic fascination with and complicity in spears ’s mistreatment by the media. While spears demonstrates these characteristics, there is the issue of confirmation bias forming my assessment. Parental groups in several countries have expressed concern about the ‘‘mixed signals’’ put forward in aspects of her music and public persona. Why is britney spears an interesting subject for personality analysis? Did britney spears have a 13-year conservatorship? Why did clara clein wolfe review britney spears the woman in me? · behind britney spears ’ story lies a painful history of women as chattel—erased by the men who have power over them, who are them in a legal sense. · she details in her memoir how the constant public scrutiny of her body and physical appearance, being valued for her sexuality and treated as a commodity have characterised her entire life. This article examines tabloid press representations of britney spears as a mentally ill subject, and is interested in how the project of ‘diagnosing bipolar britney ’ works towards solidifying biomedical conceptions of madness. What does britney spears memoir highlight? · spears is both the middle child and eldest daughter, two positions that have specific cultural connotations, such as being overlooked and over-burdened. Spears is a performer whose perceived self-representations have raised problems from the outset. To do so, we examine how american singer-songwriter britney spears is framed in the stories that tabloid journalists, wikipedia editors, and twitter users tell about her online.
