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Guys and guns amok : domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombing to the Virginia Tech massacre / Douglas Kellner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kellner, Douglas, 1943-
- Series:
- Radical imagination series
- The radical imagination series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--United States.
- Violence.
- Domestic terrorism.
- School shootings.
- Violence in men.
- United States.
- Youth and violence.
- Violence in men--United States.
- School shootings--United States.
- Domestic terrorism--United States.
- Gun control--United States.
- Gun control.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 221 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Media Spectacle and the "Virginia Tech Massacre" 1
- The Time of the Spectacle 3
- Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" and Its Limitations 7
- Reading the Spectacle with Critical Social Theory and Cultural Studies 9
- Societal Violence and Guys and Guns Amok 14
- The Epidemic of School Shootings 19
- Media Culture, Militarism, and Violent Masculinity 26
- In This Book 28
- Chapter 1 Deconstructing the Spectacle: Race, Guns, and the Culture Wars 33
- The Shootings and the Politics of Race 33
- A Convocation and Cho's Multimedia Dossier 38
- Guns and Political Scapegoating 43
- School and Workplace Security: The Debate Begins 50
- Mourning, Copycats, and Ideological Manipulation 53
- Chapter 2 The Situation of Contemporary Youth 61
- From Boomers to Busters 63
- Post-Boomers and Contemporary Youth 69
- Youth Alienation, Violence, and the War against Youth 74
- The Struggle against the War on Youth 76
- Perils of Youth 83
- Chapter 3 Constructing Male Identities and the Spectacle of Terror 89
- White Male Identity Politics 90
- Militia, Right-Wing Extremism, and Terrorist Bombings 95
- Home-Grown Terrorism: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing 100
- Harvest of Rage 107
- The Unabomber and the Politics of Terror 113
- Middle-Class White Male Columbine High School Shootings 118
- The Columbine Media Spectacle and Its Exploitation 119
- Shooting at Columbine with Michael Moore: Guns, U.S. History, and Violence in America 126
- Seung-Hui Cho in the Borderlands between the Korean and the American 131
- Chapter 4 What Is to Be Done? 139
- Aftermath 142
- Gun Laws, School and Workplace Safety, and Mental Health Care: The Delicate Balance 146
- Beyond the Culture of Male Violence and Rage 154
- New Literacies, Democratization, and the Reconstruction of Education 159
- Politics, Prisons, and the Abolition Democracy Project 164
- Horrors of the Prison-Industrial-Military Complex 165
- The Time of Abolitions 167.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1594514925
- 9781594514920
- 1594514933
- 9781594514937
- OCLC:
- 181142788
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