Popular trauma culture
Subtitle: selling the pain of others in the mass media
By: Anne Rothe
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780813551289; 9780813551296
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); In mass media; Psychic trauma and mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Oprah at Auschwitz; title: Popular trauma culture : generating the paradigm in Holocaust discourse. Holocaust tropes; title: Victim talk; title: American survivors; title: Trauma kitsch; title: Television : watching the pain of others on daytime talk shows. Talking cures; title: Trauma camp; title: Popular literature : reading the pain of others in misery memoirs. Selling misery; title: Fake suffering; title: Forging child abuse; title: Simulating Holocaust survival; title: Epilogue : fantasies of witnessing.