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Popular trauma culture : selling the pain of others in the mass media / Anne Rothe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2011.Description: xi, 206 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813551289 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0813551285 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780813551296 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0813551293 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23
Online resources: Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-201) and index.

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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