Acts of conspicuous compassion performance culture and American charity practices /
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| Formaat: | Elektronisch E-boek |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2013.
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| Online toegang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Inhoudsopgave:
- Dramatizing distress: sentimental culture, melodrama, and nineteenth-century reform for the deaf/dumb and blind
- Spectacular benevolence: theatricalizing the war on polio with the national foundation for infantile paralysis (NFIP), 1934-1945
- Wheelchairs and one-liners: televising need in the charity telethon
- Acts of conspicuous compassion: charity in the reality TV era: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.