Popular Trauma Culture : Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media.
In Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structure - characterized by a melodramatic conflict between good and evil and embodied in the core characters of victim/survivor and perpetrator - and that it provides the paradigm for representing...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction
- Oprah at Auschwitz; PART ONE
- Generating the Paradigm in Holocaust Discourse; 1- Holocaust Tropes; 2
- Victim Talk; 3
- American Survivors; 4
- Trauma Kitsch; PART TWO
- Television--Watching the Pain of Others on Daytime Talk Shows; 5
- Talking Cures; 6
- Trauma Camp; PART THREE
- Popular Literature--Reading the Pain of Others in Misery Memoirs; 7
- Selling Misery; 8
- Fake Suffering; 9
- Forging Child Abuse; 10
- Simulating Holocaust Survival; Epilogue
- Fantasies of Witnessing; Notes; Index; About the Author.