Popular Trauma Culture : Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rothe, Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Psychisches Trauma
Massenkultur
Massenmedien
Vermarktung
Judenvernichtung
Psychisches Trauma > Motiv
Psychic trauma and mass media.
Mass media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Dans les medias.
Traumatisme psychique et medias.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > In mass media.
Electronic books.
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.

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