The fictional dimension of the school shooting discourse : approaching the inexplicable /

Ever since the 1990s, school shootings have shocked the public in their brutality, their suddenness, and their inexplicability. While film and literature have played a role in the heated debates about so-called copycat crimes, the growing body of fictionalizations of school shootings has been neglec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Braselmann, Silke (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
Colección:Buchreihe der Anglia ; 65. Bd.
Temas:
School shootings.
Violence in motion pictures > Social aspects.
Violence in literature > Social aspects.
Meurtre multiple dans les écoles.
Violence au cinéma > Aspect social.
Violence dans la littérature > Aspect social.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
School shootings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I: Narrative, Fiction and Fact in the School Shooting Discourse
  • 2. We Need to Talk About Amok: Tracing the Narratives of School Shootings
  • 3. Blurred Boundaries: The Role of Fiction in the School Shooting Discourse
  • Part II: Discursive Functions of School Shooting Literature and Film
  • 4. Multimodal Representations of the School Shooting Narrative in Give a Boy a Gun (2000), Shooter (2004) and Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002)
  • 5. Experiencing the 'Rashomon-Effect': Functions of Multiperspectivity in Violent Ends (2015), This is Where It Ends (2016) and Elephant (2003)
  • 6. Unsettling Narratives: The Inexplicability of School Shootings in We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) and its Film Adaptation (2011)
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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