Title Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices / Sheila C. Moeschen.

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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-203) and index.
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.
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Subject	Theater and society -- United States -- History.
	Theater and society.
	United States.
	History.
	Charity in literature.
	Charity in literature.
	People with disabilities in literature.
	People with disabilities in literature.
	PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
Genre/Form	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Acts of conspicuous compassion Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013] 9780472118861 (cloth : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2013000019
ISBN	9780472029273 e-book
	0472029274
	9780472118861 cloth : acid-free paper
	129973460X (electronic book)
	9781299734609 (electronic book)
	0472118862
Standard No.	10.3998/mpub.4652985