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



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Autore: Moeschen Sheila C Visualizza persona
Titolo: Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices / / Sheila C. Moeschen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2013]
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Acts of conspicuous compassion  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-472-02927-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788301903321
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