Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices /

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Charity has been a pervasive and influential concept in American culture, and has also served an important ideological purpose, helping people articulate their sense of individual and national identity. But what, exactly, compels our benevolence? In a social moment when countless worthy causes and d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moeschen, Sheila C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Temas:
Theater and society > United States > History.
Charity in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
Théâtre et société > États-Unis > Histoire.
Charité dans la littérature.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
Charity in literature
People with disabilities in literature
Theater and society
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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