Rothe, Anne. <br/><br/>
Popular trauma culture :  selling the pain of others in the mass media / 
Anne Rothe. 
 - New Brunswick, NJ :  Rutgers University Press,  c2011. 
 - xi, 206 p. ;  24 cm. 
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<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813551289 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813551285 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813551296 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813551293 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010049961 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychic trauma and mass media.<br/>Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--In mass media.<br/>Abnormal psychology.<br/>Mass media.<br/>Holocaust, 1939-1945.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.23