TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rothe,Anne
TI  - Popular Trauma Culture: Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media 
SN  - 9780813551289 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 302.23 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Psychic trauma and mass media
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - In mass media
N1  - 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
ER  -