books.google.co.uk - In this project, then, I examine schadenfreude and suffering as both a textual strategy and a site for exploring social identity in American culture. On the one hand, the spectacle of suffering remains as one of the final "authentic" emotions available in the arsenal of reality television, a unifying...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Laughing_at_the_World_Schadenfreude_Soci.html?id=sdIvNBNCvqcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLaughing at the World: Schadenfreude, Social Identity, and American Media Culture
