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Acts of conspicuous compassion [electronic resource] : performance culture and American charity practices / Sheila C. Moeschen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:
  • 9780472029273
  • 0472029274
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 792.0973 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2226 .M56 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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