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Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

Sheila C. Moeschen
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      Acts of Conspicuous Compassion investigates the relationship between performance culture and the cultivation of charitable sentiment in America, exploring the distinctive 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 transformation and redemption in reality TV’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Acts of Conspicuous Compassion charts the sophisticated strategies employed by various charity movements responsible for making organized benevolence alluring, exciting, and seemingly uncomplicated.Sheila C. Moeschen brokers a new way of accounting for the legacy and involvement of disabled people within charity—specifically, the articulation of performance culture as a vital theoretical framework for discussing issues of embodiment and identity dislodges previously held notions of the disabled existing as passive, “objects” of pity. This work gives rise to a more complicated and nuanced discussion of the participation of the disabled community in the charity industry, of the opportunities afforded by performance culture for disabled people to act as critical agents of charity, and of the new ethical and political issues that arise from employing performance methodology in a culture with increased appetites for voyeurism, display, and complex spectacle.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Sheila C. Moeschen EAN: 9780472036554 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 339 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-01-08 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Disability: social aspects

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      Sheila Moeschen holds an Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama from Northwestern University, USA. She is a Boston-based independent scholar and freelance writer. Her website is sheilamoeschen.com.
      Acts of Conspicuous Compassion investigates the relationship between performance culture and the cultivation of charitable sentiment in America, exploring the distinctive 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 transformation and redemption in reality TV’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Acts of Conspicuous Compassion charts the sophisticated strategies employed by various charity movements responsible for making organized benevolence alluring, exciting, and seemingly uncomplicated.Sheila C. Moeschen brokers a new way of accounting for the legacy and involvement of disabled people within charity—specifically, the articulation of performance culture as a vital theoretical framework for discussing issues of embodiment and identity dislodges previously held notions of the disabled existing as passive, “objects” of pity. This work gives rise to a more complicated and nuanced discussion of the participation of the disabled community in the charity industry, of the opportunities afforded by performance culture for disabled people to act as critical agents of charity, and of the new ethical and political issues that arise from employing performance methodology in a culture with increased appetites for voyeurism, display, and complex spectacle.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Sheila C. Moeschen EAN: 9780472036554 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 339 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-01-08 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Disability: social aspects

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      Sheila Moeschen holds an Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama from Northwestern University, USA. She is a Boston-based independent scholar and freelance writer. Her website is sheilamoeschen.com.

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