Popular trauma culture : selling the pain of others in the mass media /
By: Rothe, Anne
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BookPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2011.Description: xi, 206 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780813551289 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0813551285 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780813551296 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0813551293 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Psychic trauma and mass media | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- In mass media | Abnormal psychology | Mass media | Holocaust, 1939-1945DDC classification: 302.23 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 302.23 PO ME Media literacy / | 302.23 PO PU Popular media cultures : | 302.23 RO MA Mass media in a changing world / | 302.23 RO PO Popular trauma culture : | 302.23 RO UT The Routledge handbook of media use and well-being : | 302.23 RO VI Visual methodologies : | 302.23 RU FU Future presence : |
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.
Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot formula, and analyzes holocaust clichés and its political appropriation. She then examines America's popular trauma culture in daytime TV talk shows and misery memoirs.
Adult
Adult.