Popular Trauma Culture :
Rothe, Anne.
Popular Trauma Culture : Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media / Anne Rothe. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - xi, 206 p. ; 24 cm. - 302.23 .
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.
9780813551289 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813551285 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813551296 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813551293 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Psychic trauma and mass media.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--In mass media.
302.23
Popular Trauma Culture : Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media / Anne Rothe. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - xi, 206 p. ; 24 cm. - 302.23 .
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.
9780813551289 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813551285 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813551296 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813551293 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Psychic trauma and mass media.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--In mass media.
302.23