Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices / / Sheila C. Moeschen.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 209 p. |
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Table of 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.