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Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices
- Title
- Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices / Sheila C. Moeschen.
- Author
- Moeschen, Sheila C.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MWET 13-5591 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Description
- 209 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- MWET 13-5591
- ISBN
- 9780472118861 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0472118862 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 9780472029273 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013000019
- OCLC
- 820123720
- Author
- Moeschen, Sheila C.
- Title
- Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices / Sheila C. Moeschen.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-203) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MWET 13-5591