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Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices / Sheila C. Moeschen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moeschen, Sheila C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater and society--United States--History.
- Theater and society.
- Charity in literature.
- People with disabilities in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Illuminates the relationship between performance and the American charity movement.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-203) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472029273
- 0472029274
- OCLC:
- 853455254
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