| Description |
xi, 206 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-201) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Psychic trauma and mass media.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in mass media.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780813551289 (hardcover alk. paper) |
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0813551285 (hardcover alk. paper) |
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9780813551296 (pbk. alk. paper) |
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0813551293 (pbk. alk. paper) |
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9780813552200 (electronic bk.) |
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