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
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