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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Moeschen, Sheila C.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Theater and society.
People with disabilities in literature.
Charity in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Charite dans la litterature.
Theâtre et societe > États-Unis > Histoire.
Theater and society > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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