Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices / / Sheila C. Moeschen
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| Autore: |
Moeschen Sheila C
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| Titolo: |
Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices / / Sheila C. Moeschen
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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2013] |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 792.0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Theater and society - United States - History |
| Charity in literature | |
| People with disabilities in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-203) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Illuminates the relationship between performance and the American charity movement. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Acts of conspicuous compassion |
| ISBN: | 0-472-02927-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808529103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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