Acts of Conspicuous Compassion - Performance Culture and American Charity Practices

Informationen zum Autor Sheila C. Moeschen is an independent scholar and Director of HerSelf First! a nonprofit program that helps women caregivers invest in their wellbeing. This program is supported by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. Klappentext Investigates the relationship between performance culture and the cultivation of charitable sentiment in America! exploring the practices that have evolved to make the plea for charity legible and compelling. From the work of 19th-century melodramas to the televised drama of TV's Extreme Makeover! Acts of Conspicuous Compassion charts the strategies employed by charity movements responsible for making organised benevolence alluring! exciting! and seemingly uncomplicated. Zusammenfassung Illuminates the relationship between performance and the American charity movement

Product details

• Authors: Sheila C. Moeschen
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2013
• EAN: 9780472118861
• ISBN: 978-0-472-11886-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science