- Description
- 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Acts of conspicuous compassion (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Acts of conspicuous compassion (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-203) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2013000019
- OCLC
- ssj0000949653
- Author
Moeschen, Sheila C.
- Title
Acts of conspicuous compassion [electronic resource] : performance culture and American charity practices / Sheila C. Moeschen.
- Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-203) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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