Acts of Conspicuous Compassion : Performance Culture and American Charity Practices.
Title:
Acts of Conspicuous Compassion : Performance Culture and American Charity Practices.
Author:
Moeschen, Sheila C.
ISBN:
9780472029273
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (218 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Dramatizing Distress: Sentimental Culture, Melodrama, and Nineteenth-Century Reform for the Deaf/Dumb and Blind -- Chapter 2. Spectacular Benevolence: Theatricalizing the War on Polio with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), 1934 - 1945 -- Chapter 3. Wheelchairs and One-Liners: Televising Need in the Charity Telethon -- Chapter 4. Acts of Conspicuous Compassion: Charity in the Reality TV Era: "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Illuminates the relationship between performance and the American charity movement.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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