Acts of conspicuous compassion performance culture and American charity practices /

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Auteur principal: Moeschen, Sheila C.
Collectivité auteur: ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.