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Popular trauma culture : selling the pain of others in the mass media / Anne Rothe.
LIBRA P96.P73 R68 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rothe, Anne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychic trauma and mass media.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--In mass media.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 206 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction : Oprah at Auschwitz
- Popular trauma culture : generating the paradigm in Holocaust discourse. Holocaust tropes
- Victim talk
- American survivors
- Trauma kitsch
- Television : watching the pain of others on daytime talk shows. Talking cures
- Trauma camp
- Popular literature : reading the pain of others in misery memoirs. Selling misery
- Fake suffering
- Forging child abuse
- Simulating Holocaust survival
- Epilogue : fantasies of witnessing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813551289
- 0813551285
- 9780813551296
- 0813551293
- OCLC:
- 690585248
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