Popular trauma culture

Rothe, Anne.

Popular trauma culture selling the pain of others in the mass media / [electronic resource] : Anne Rothe. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - xi, 206 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-201) and index.

Introduction : Oprah at Auschwitz -- Popular trauma culture : generating the paradigm in Holocaust discourse. Holocaust tropes -- Victim talk -- American survivors -- Trauma kitsch -- Television : watching the pain of others on daytime talk shows. Talking cures -- Trauma camp -- Popular literature : reading the pain of others in misery memoirs. Selling misery -- Fake suffering -- Forging child abuse -- Simulating Holocaust survival -- Epilogue : fantasies of witnessing.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Psychic trauma and mass media.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in mass media.


Electronic books.

P96.P73 / R68 2011eb

302.23