| Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Oprah at Auschwitz; PART ONE -- Generating the Paradigmin 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. |
| Summary |
In Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structure & mdash;characterized by a melodramatic conflict between good and evil and embodied in the core characters of victim/survivor and perpetrator & mdash;and that it provides the paradigm for representing personal experiences of pain and suffering in the mass media. The book begins with an analysis of Holocaust clicȟs, and then explores the embodiment of popular trauma culture in two core mass media genres: daytime TV talk shows and misery memoirs. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-201) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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Psychic trauma and mass media.
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Psychic trauma and mass media. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in mass media.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in mass media. |
| Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rothe, Anne. Popular Trauma Culture : Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2011 9780813551289 |
| ISBN |
9780813552200 electronic book |
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0813552206 electronic book |
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9780813551289 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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0813551285 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9780813551296 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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0813551293 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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